Any Veteran Readers Have Recommendations for Stories Set in the 1970s and 1980s, or About Harem and Household Intrigue? 有没有老书虫推荐一下 年代文 或者宫斗宅斗的书？
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Favoring a Concubine and Neglecting the Wife? I Won't Be the Marquess's Principal Wife! 宠妾灭妻？这侯门主母我不当了！
[Annual Top-Rated Novel Ranking] Voting has begun! Search for “Annual Top-Rated Novel Ranking” to vote for this book, A Return to the Boudoir. Thank you! [Traditional historical romance + inner-courtyard drama + reborn revenge and face-slapping + a prince pursues his wife] Lin Yunwan was the legitimate daughter of the prestigious Lin clan. When her Marquis household was on the verge of losing its title, she married Lu Zhengliu, the heir to the marquisate. On their wedding day, her husband coldly
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He Spoiled His Concubine and Neglected His Wife. Reborn, I Broke Off My Engagement to the Scumbag and Married the Prince 宠妾灭妻，重生我退婚渣男嫁王爷
The physical book is available on all major platforms. Formerly titled Riding the Phoenix. [Reborn + Powerful Female Lead and Male Lead + Nation and World + Political Schemes] Before the age of seventeen, Shen Yu was the legitimate daughter of a military family who could wield a blade and charge into battle. After seventeen, she became the frail wife of Jiang Manor's Vice Minister Jiang. Her father and brothers died in battle, and the entire Shen family was honored for their loyalty. Bearing
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After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Became the Big Shot’s Lazy Pillow 穿书后成了大佬的咸鱼抱枕
Outside, a raging storm howled and battle cries filled the air. Inside, Ning Xihua suddenly jolted awake on the bed. Propping herself up halfway, she looked confused. “What’s going on?” The man held a book in one hand and pulled her into his arms with the other. “Nothing. Go back to sleep.” “Oh.” Ning Xihua lay back down and promptly fell asleep. If the big shot was this calm, then even if knives were raining down outside, it had nothing to do with her. After transmigrating into a book, Ning Xi
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The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了
[Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of
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The King Returns: The Regent Princess Consort Is Stunning 王者归来，摄政王妃帅炸了
[Feel-good power fantasy, strong male and female leads, 1v1 romance, sweet pampering, adored by everyone, secret identity] She is the heir to a medical family in the 21st century. After transmigrating, she becomes the legitimate daughter of the Yue family, only to be treated as a disposable pawn and sent to a place like hell! She rises from a mound of bones, mastering both medicine and poison, and returns as a queen. She takes on her scumbag father and kills the wicked woman! Anyone who bullies
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My Husband Gives Me Two Hundred Thousand Taels a Month 夫君每月给我二十万两
[Sweet Romance + Transmigrate Into a Book + Goofy Comedy + Redemption + Marriage Before Love] Gan Qiongying transmigrated into the body of a princess! Before she could even celebrate, she realized this world was the setting of a book she had read. And she was the wicked supporting character who committed countless evils and met a tragic end... The plot had reached the point where a princess of her stature was being forced to marry a merchant. Merchants ranked below scholars, farmers, and arti
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The Tiger Wife 虎妻
The Great Qi Dynasty’s foremost God of War, the ruthless, hideous common-born general Yuchi Gui, was granted a marriage by the emperor to the capital’s greatest beauty, Princess Xu Xiyan. Then his high-born fiancée looked down on him, and the wedding was called off. Three years later, after suppressing a rebellion, the handsome and dashing general returned to the capital, becoming the hero every noblewoman in Great Qi wanted to marry. Then his former fiancée clung to him and forced him into marr
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The Darling in the Palm 掌上娇娇
[Print edition preorder opens July 17] [Film and TV rights sold] [Reader's guide: sweet romance, devoted couple, feel-good wish fulfillment, with clever schemes and political intrigue, many clues and details, and a large cast of well-developed characters. The heroine never gets the short end of the stick; anything that doesn't make sense will be explained later] Prince Xuan, He Junting. In the novel Devoted to the Imperial Consort, the author wrote of how he slaughtered the entire Northern Di co
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A Profusion of Intertwined Blossoms 连枝花浓
They say Jiang Qingli, the legitimate daughter of the Jiang family, is an empty-headed fool with not a shred of learning. Yet thanks to her maternal grandmother, a Grand Princess, she was betrothed to Gu Anlan, the elegant and distinguished heir of the Gu family. Meanwhile, the Jiang family’s concubine-born daughter, Jiang Qingrou, is renowned for both her beauty and her talent, yet she was promised to Gu Anyu, Gu Anlan’s infamous wastrel of a half-brother. The gossips of the capital have sighed
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Reborn Noblewoman: The Powerful Minister's Beloved Is Acting Cute Again 贵女重生：权臣的心尖宠又撒娇了
In her previous life, Shen Zhaozhao hated Shen Chuchuan for as long as she lived. Yet when she died, he was the only one who rode over on horseback to collect her body. Given a second chance at life, Shen Zhaozhao resolves to turn over a new leaf, crush the scumbags, and protect her family. She treats Shen Chuchuan like family and does everything she can to stay on the good side of this future powerful official. But he looks down at her from above, gripping her chin as he says in a chilling voic
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Back to the 1960s: From Eating My Fill to Becoming a Factory Boss 穿回六零：从吃饱饭到厂长老总
On a sweltering day, a bottle of ice-cold cola sent a young man struggling to make ends meet back to the early 1960s. He was reborn as the third great-uncle who had died young in his previous life. In an era when people worried just about getting enough to eat, he began a life of easy success. New book: Transmigrating to 1942: Starting with a Blade of Grass. I hope you’ll support it.
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The Powerhouse with Special Abilities Becomes a Cannon-Fodder Stepmother 异能大佬她穿成了炮灰后娘
Ye Xiang transmigrated into a disposable stepmother in a novel who wouldn’t survive even one chapter. In the story, the male lead would become a general, unite the martial world, and ultimately marry the female lead, an assassin. She, meanwhile, was the second wife who abused and killed his three children, before he executed her with his own hands. Now she was planning to elope with her lover, while the three children were burning with fevers that wouldn’t break and were on the verge of death. I
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My Husband Wants a Divorce While I'm Pregnant? Fine, Whatever You Want! 孕期夫君要和离？随你都随你！
Shu Yuwan is the youngest legitimate daughter in her family. Her parents and elder brothers have cherished her since childhood, and her mother carefully chose a distinguished young gentleman from the capital to be her husband. After their wedding, the couple may not have been inseparable, but they treated each other with mutual respect. But while she was pregnant, her husband claimed he had met an extraordinary woman who had left him awestruck. He wanted a divorce so he could marry her. Shu Yuwa
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The Eunuch of a Thousand Years Is Bewitchingly Beautiful 九千岁他百媚千娇
(A deranged villain who is a real eunuch × a cat-demon empress, both inexperienced, happy ending) (A redemption story focused mainly on the romance. The male lead is a villain through and through, with no redemption. The female lead is carefree and oblivious. No pointless side characters. The storybook world isn't the real mortal realm. Some scenes are quite bloody, so read with care.) He had once been a demon living in hell, a maggot in filthy mud, a loathsome walking corpse, a killing machine
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The Person in the Room 房中人
When they first met in the outer courtyard, he was the lofty Third Young Master of the Dongyang Marquis' household, while she was the lowest-ranking servant girl in the estate. She nearly suffered abuse at the hands of the hired help, and before she even had time to straighten her clothes, he called her an ugly, disgusting thing and looked down on her. Later, she became a third-class maid in his courtyard, and unexpectedly spent a night with him. He said, “Do you really not want to spend a littl
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The Marquis's Widow Raised a Household of Geniuses 侯夫人守寡，却养出满门天骄
Tang Shuyi transmigrated into the Great Qian dynasty, becoming the wife of the Marquis of Yongning. She was rich, powerful, and high-status, with no parents-in-law and a dead husband: she had it better than almost anyone else who had transmigrated. Just as she was about to enjoy a comfortable life as a wealthy noblewoman, she discovered that she had transmigrated into a book, and was its biggest villain. She wasn’t just rich, powerful, and high-status. She also had three unruly children. The eld
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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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Transmigrate into a Book Set in the 1970s: Even a Slacker Has to Hustle 穿书七零，咸鱼也得卷起来
Yun Shu transmigrated into a book, becoming a supporting character in a period novel. She didn't need to be sent to the countryside because she was already there. She didn't need to deal with horrible people because she was one of them. She didn't want to go back to school, but had to hide there to stay alive. She didn't want marriage to change her fate, yet rumors about her never stopped. She didn't want to attract attention, but kept getting thrust into the spotlight... She thought she had alw
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The Reborn Son-in-Law's Road to a New Life 赘婿的重生之路
[Rebirth + Period Drama + Urban + Feel-Good] Yin Tianshui was an orphan. At eighteen, he was chosen by the Feng family in a neighboring village to become their live-in son-in-law. The Feng family’s daughter had a married lover, and she was already pregnant when she got married. On their wedding night, her whole family conspired to get Yin Tianshui drunk, making him believe he had consummated the marriage and injured his new wife in the process. Yin Tianshui endured twenty years of abuse and humi
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Reborn in 1993: Dark Sea 重生1993，暗海
The physical edition of Wrathful Sea, Calm the Abyss is now available. Presales officially begin at 19:00 on October 11. [Reborn] [Mystery] [Undercover Agent] [Revenge] [Anti-Drug Operations] [Counterespionage] The golden finger is extremely weak, and he relies on his own abilities. This is a battle of wits between highly intelligent opponents, so you need to keep your brain switched on. There is no showing off and face-slapping! Ideal for veteran readers. If you understand it, you'll find it ve
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The Rise and Fall of the King of Nanyue 南越王风云
The legendary life of a hundred-year-old emperor from real history! Across a thousand years of wind and sand, through the trials of countless miles, this hero of troubled times comes before us from Zhao, a land of shattered mountains and rivers and drifting snow. His soul swirls amid mighty tides, his blood blazes across the howling battlefield, while his soaring ambition pierces the clouds and his heart-wrenching journey of love dances among the radiant stars.
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Southern Ming: The Sun Never Sets on the Empire Rising from the Frontier 南明：从边境崛起的日不落帝国
On February 21, 1659 (the thirteenth year of the Yongli era of the Southern Ming, the sixteenth year of the Shunzhi era of the Qing), Qing forces crossed the Nu River and approached Tengyue Prefecture. General Li Dingguo decided to use the terrain to ambush them, and the bloody Battle of Mopanshan was about to begin. The Southern Ming crown prince, Zhu Cixuan, had been gravely ill and unconscious for days when he suddenly awoke, his eyes opening to a world beyond anything people could imagine. W
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A Fisherman and Woodcutter Talk of Spring and Autumn 白发渔樵说春秋
Drawing on historical works such as the Spring and Autumn Annals, Zuo Zhuan, Records of the Grand Historian, Strategies of the Warring States, and Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government, this work fills in the causes and consequences of historical events, as well as the historical context in which they took place. The result is a more accessible, engaging story that readers will remember long after finishing it! Thanks to all the readers for your support! And a salute to everyone who loves hi
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Chronicles of the Netherworld 幽冥记
Set against the backdrop of Song dynasty mythology, the story begins with a journey through the underworld and unfolds through a series of characters and tales. As the Buddha says, “Goodness is the root of all things,” and so loyalty and filial piety are the foundations of being human. Holding on to a single good thought is the righteous path of this world. The Buddha also says, “Desire is the source of resentment in the human heart.” Love can fill the heart with the joy of blooming flowers, but
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The Chubby Wife Is No Pushover: Marrying an Officer and Raising Adorable Kids 肥妻不好惹，嫁给军官老公养萌娃
[Period Setting + Military Marriage + Marriage Before Love + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance + Transmigration] Chen Jianian used to work as a server at a Mixue Ice City shop in the twenty-first century. She was in the middle of beating a lemon tea when, to her surprise, she transmigrated! If she had to transmigrate, why did she have to land in the body of a fat military wife in the 1980s? The original owner not only abused children, but was also lazy, greedy, and overbearing. Everyone was sick of
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A World Full of Handsome Men, and the Host Goes After Half of Them 世界美男千千万，宿主嚯嚯一大半
After the previous Host got herself killed and erased, System 315 quickly found its next Host. The only problem was, this new Host was a bit of a handful. She followed the romance mission and raised affection scores, but why was she raising everyone's affection scores?! 315: Are you trying to get with everyone who catches your eye? Lin Xiao: I'm a girl who doesn't smoke or drink. What's wrong with having a few personal interests? 315: Impressive.
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The Crown Princess Is Reborn and Returns to Turn the World Upside Down 太子妃重生归来颠覆天下
The Crown Princess was killed at sea by wicked men just before her wedding. Reborn, she is rumored to have eloped with the Fourth Prince. Not only is her entire family thrown into the Dali Temple prison, but her maternal relatives in Jiangnan are dragged into the mess as well... Meanwhile, her half-sister becomes the Crown Prince’s secondary consort! After clawing her way back from the brink, she marries into the royal family while pregnant and becomes the Princess Consort of Prince Ning. She b
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