Looking for a Fresh Historical Romance. No Palace Intrigue or Inner Monologues, Just a Devoted Male Lead 想要题材新颖的古言，拒绝宫斗、心声，要独宠

1. 201 侯 The Marquess's Wife Worked Herself to Death, Then Was Reborn and Chose to Do Nothing 侯门主母操劳而死，重生后摆烂了 Li Wu礼午Ancient Romance598k WordsCompleted [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 100.2kReads9.3Score12.1kShelves
2. 202 团 The Three-Year-Old Princess, Doted on by All 团宠公主三岁半 March Evening Primrose三月夕颜Ancient Romance2.7M WordsCompleted Gu Hui, heir to a family of renowned acupuncturists, accidentally transmigrated as a tiny princess and discovered that she could read people’s minds. Her father was the emperor, and her mother was a scheming imperial consort. Using her superpower, she became the apple of the emperor’s eye, the crown prince’s darling, and a thorn in the side of countless people. Gu Hui: “I want to rule the world, with no one daring to mess with me. I love seeing them hate me but be powerless to do anything about 14.1kReads9.4Score2kShelves
3. 203 你 You and I Were Never Meant to Be, But the Prince Is Willing to Spend 你我本无缘，全靠王爷肯花钱 Ye Lian Yi叶怜衣Ancient Romance540k WordsCompleted [Sweet romance + irresistible, teasing beauty × a man whose mouth says no but whose actions say yes + sweet wife × tough guy + size difference] Shen Qingqing was having a bit of bad luck. She’d transmigrated into the body of a courtesan who was about to leave the brothel. She’d heard the madam planned to sell her as a concubine to a lecher in his fifties. So Shen Qingqing had to find another way out and get herself “married” within a month... She paid a hefty sum to a matchmaker for a list of el 4.9kReads9.3Score773Shelves
4. 204 被 Forced to Divorce, Her Five Brothers Go on a Rampage 被迫休夫后，五个哥哥杀疯了 A Lifetime of Splendor一世风华Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Shen Ning gave up her beloved spear to cook for the man she loved. She broke with her father, a veteran general of Great Yan, and didn’t speak to him for three years. Her husband, the victorious General Who Guards the Nation, returned in triumph with a woman who was a master of the spear. After three years of hard work, all she got was: “A Ning, I want to marry her.” Shen Ning, who had become the laughingstock of the capital after her husband favored his concubine and cast aside his wife, picked 11.2kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
5. 205 七 From Seventh-Rank Official to the Top: The Strongest Female Chief Minister 七品逆袭：最强女首辅 Fine Night良宵Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (A woman disguised as a man in an ancient political intrigue story) Qin Yuan first met He Lin in the summer of Jingli Year 29. The cicadas shrilled in the trees, and the heat was suffocating. In a dark, filthy prison cell, she sat in a corner, her face smeared with blood. Without a word, he left her a handkerchief to wipe the blood from her forehead. When they met again outside the prison, she was no longer in such a wretched state. Dressed in a vivid red official robe, her bright eyes blazing, 5.2kReads9.1Score680Shelves
6. 206 将 The General Is a Mad Beauty 将军是个疯批美人 Piggy Piggy Piggy Piggy Piggy Li猪猪猪猪猪丽Ancient Romance465k WordsCompleted After being reborn, Qin Huaining went mad and "killed" herself. She took her late brother's identity and enlisted in the army, becoming a famous young general. She inherited her brother's identity, and it seemed she inherited his past life as a man too, indulging in wine, women, and wealth. Her residence was filled with beauties of all kinds, men and women alike. In the eyes of outsiders, she was a useless wastrel, drunk on wine, women, and money. But everyone at court knew better than to provok 493Reads8.9Score106Shelves
7. 207 无 Everyone Loves Yan Fuyu 无人不爱燕扶玉 A Moment of Pomelo一刻柚子Ancient Romance468k WordsCompleted Everyone’s Favorite + The Whole Cast’s Redemption Arc + Love Triangle Showdowns Yan Fuyu dreams of her future and discovers that she lives in a story about the love between humans and demons. The story mainly celebrates the tragic and beautiful romance between the demon spy heroine and the elite male leads and supporting characters of the human race. Yan Fuyu is a cannon-fodder villain who drives the plot forward. She discovers the heroine’s identity as a spy and tries to kill her, only to be mi 437Reads7.4Score101Shelves

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8. 208 修 The Cultivation World’s Sickly Number One 修真界第一病秧子 Paper Tiger纸老虎Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 320.2kReads9.7Score31kShelves
9. 209 权 Power Over the World, Sword in Hand Beneath the Heavens 权倾天下，剑挽天华 I Took Great Pains我煞费苦心Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Also known as: I Pay, You Risk Your Life, and We Both Go Crazy; The Ultimate Scapegoat; Power Over All, Sword to the Heavens Someone has set a trap to make everyone turn against me. "It's fine. I have a System..." Luo Yinyou comforted herself. "Even if the System is a total troll!" The world order had changed drastically, and the flow of destiny had been redistributed. Countless geniuses emerged, but the most dazzling of them all was the young lord Ye Ci of Dragon Island, hailed as the greatest 52kReads9.6Score7kShelves
10. 210 开 All Spirit Roots from the Start: I Slept My Way to Invincibility 开局全灵根，我把自己睡成无敌 Ben Zhijie本止戒Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Qin Yuan, courtesy name Yanwan. You can tell from the name alone that this was a child nobody liked from the moment she was born. And... reality was exactly the same! There was no twist! The X-novel writer stared in despair at the reflection in the pool: a white-haired girl with scarlet eyes... That's right, she had transmigrated into a book, into the fantasy world of a novel she'd written called The Lost Immortal. Everyone except the protagonist met a bad end! The "lost" in The Lost Immortal me 31.3kReads9.5Score5.4kShelves
11. 211 小 Little Junior Sister, Don’t Be Reckless! The Whole Cultivation World Is Yours! 小师妹别莽了整个修真界都归你了 Knife, Medicine, Pen刀药笔Ancient Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigration into a book, cultivation, strong female lead, System, fire spiritual root, no romance] Chu Luo transmigrates into a cultivation world and binds herself to a Destiny System, starting off with her luck reduced by 9,999 points. It turns out that she and her twin sister share the fate of twin flowers on a single stem. All of Chu Luo's luck has been drained by her elder sister, the heroine of the original novel. Worse, her own family wants to kill her outright so the heroine can becom 9.3kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
12. 212 跪 I Give Up! She’s Crazy and Brilliant, and Nobody Dares Mess with Her 跪了，她又疯又天赋超群！惹不起 Fei Xi妃玺Ancient Romance3.0M WordsCompleted “If the author says there's no romance, then there really isn't.” She became the saintess of one of the Four Great Sacred Lands, with exceptional talent, a prestigious position, and a decent fortune. And yet, with such an impressive setup, she was destined to be a cannon-fodder villain in countless stories about male and female leads. To avoid being won over or defeated, and to stay alive, she had no choice but to strike first. Oh, did I hit too hard? My mistake, my mistake. Go recover, then com 23.1kReads9.2Score2.5kShelves
13. 213 女 The Supporting Actress Cultivates Immortality, While the Protagonist Is Sacrificed to Heaven 女配修仙，主角祭天 Long-Tailed Tit长尾山雀呀Ancient Romance1.6M WordsCompleted On the night before becoming the disciple of Immortal Venerable Yanchen, Sang Ying discovered that she was the villainess in a cultivation novel about a master and his disciple! She was the foil to the pure and kind heroine, a delicate white lotus. Not only did she force the male lead to take her as his disciple, she also tried to steal what belonged to the heroine. In the end, she died at the hands of one of the heroine's admirers, and her pure ice spirit root became the catalyst for repairing 11.2kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves
14. 214 穿 After Becoming a Cultivation Novel's Female Side Character, I Don't Want to Be Cannon Fodder 穿成修仙女配后不想当炮灰 Knife, Medicine, Pen刀药笔Ancient Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Female-Led Cultivation, No Romance] [Mutated Wind Spirit Root + Hidden Weapons] Reincarnated as the villainess in a cultivation novel, she gets the best setup possible: the Northern Border’s greatest beauty and a genius disciple with a mutated Wind Spirit Root. But since she isn’t destined to be the heroine, Duan Jiaojiao decides to stay away from her and turn down the powerful Canglan Sect, joining the “pickpocket sect” Kongkong Sect instead. Who could have guessed that this much-hated “pickpo 8kReads9.2Score880Shelves
15. 215 穿 Reborn as a Nobody, I Cultivate Like Crazy and Leave Them in the Dust 穿成路人甲，我疯狂修炼卷死他们 An Impossible安不可行Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Dual Systems + No Romance + Invincible Protagonist + Not a Saint] After Xu Wan died, she woke up bound to a cultivation System. As she set out on the path of cultivation, she also bound herself to a fortune System. Both Systems belonged to the same headquarters. With the help of her two Systems, Xu Wan cultivated, found treasures, and increased her cultivation even while lying around. As she cultivated, she discovered that she was just a background character. But this time, the background chara 3.5kReads8.6Score397Shelves
16. 216 团 The Five-Year-Old Darling Princess 团宠萌妃五岁半 Jiangli将离Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted When Xiao Jie first met Bai Sansan, she was, well, short-armed and short-legged, so unsteady on her feet she could topple over, and she tugged at his sleeve, asking to be picked up. So the usually unapproachable Prince of War actually took the Bai family's foolish young lady into his arms of his own accord. Later, an imperial decree declared that the Bai family's fair-skinned, soft, adorable Third Miss would marry the Prince of War, who was said to be both ugly and ferocious. Everyone was so ups 1.8kReads9.2Score523Shelves
17. 217 叮 Ding! With an Immortal Achievement, the Cousin Miss Starts Reading 叮，成就流芳百世，表小姐开卷了 Tianyang Peak, Who Loves Handmade Wheat Dumplings爱吃手工麦饺的天阳峰Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Xu Yue transmigrates into a book. She becomes the delicate, vulnerable cousin of the male lead in an examination-themed novel: her mother died young, she has no brothers and no one to rely on, and her family won't take her in, so she is awkwardly forced to live in the male lead's home. In her previous life, Xu Yue rose from being an orphan to earning a doctorate. She never believed in fate, and even though it was hard for women to get by in ancient times, she never stopped thinking about how to 197.6kReads9.6Score24.5kShelves
18. 218 穿 Transmigrate into a Book: No One Understands Arrogance Better Than I Do 穿书之没人能比我更懂嚣张 Chenchen Little Darling晨晨小宝贝Ancient Romance984k WordsCompleted [Signed for print publication] –– Fu Zhu died suddenly after staying up all night watching shows and reading novels. She still remembers that just before she died, she was reading a novel called The Useless Girl Warrior Who Defies Heaven. –– Then she became Bai Li Fu Zhu, the female villain who opposes the novel's hero and heroine. –– This villain is different: she isn't jealous of the heroine or interested in the hero. She simply can't stand the two of them acting more arrogant than her and ste 58.6kReads9.3Score8.7kShelves
19. 219 签 A Century of Sign-Ins Shocks the Original Heroine 签到百年，震惊原女主 Chilled Honeydew冰镇蜜瓜Ancient Romance2.1M WordsCompleted After transmigrating into a fantasy world, Dan Yao was assigned to grow flowers in Hundred Flowers Valley because of her poor aptitude. Just then, the Lazy Sign-In System activated. As long as she signed in anywhere with spiritual energy, she would receive a reward. Signing in at Hundred Flowers Valley earned her the Seven-Star Sword Art. Signing in at Tianshu Peak earned her the Hundred Flowers Codex. Signing in at the forbidden grounds behind the mountain earned her the ancient divine weapon S 18.7kReads8.8Score1.9kShelves
20. 220 禁 A Hundred Years in the Forbidden Zone! She Can No Longer Hide Her Strength 禁地百年！她的实力藏不住了 Cong Xin丛薪Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [No CP (no male lead) + Extremely powerful heroine + Power fantasy + System is support only + Ferocious fighter + Decisive and ruthless + Nontraditional cultivation + Some flaws, readers with high standards beware + A little logic, but not much] A genius girl was deceived by a scumbag, who stole her heart and her mutated Ice Spiritual Root. She died young, and Ning Zhi, a soul from another world with the same name, gained control of her body. With the System descending from the heavens, a new er 4.7kReads8.7Score526Shelves
21. 221 被 After Her Body Was Dumped, She Became the Villain Legion’s Cherished Darling 被抛尸后，她成了反派军团家团宠 First Day, Seeing the Moon初一见月Ancient Romance6.2M WordsCompleted [Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her 187.6kReads9.6Score25.6kShelves
22. 222 女 The Delicate, Alluring Supporting Lady 女配她娇软撩人 So Full, So Full满啊满Ancient Romance350k WordsCompleted [Scheming, Obsessive Regent + Delicate, Frail Beauty] [Mutually Devoted + All the Spoiling!] [Warning: The heroine thinks like a normal person. The System’s tags are wrong. This is not a domestic or palace-intrigue novel.] Mu Xiansi transmigrated into a character-raising game as a sickly cannon-fodder woman who loved the second male lead so much she would die for him. The System assigned her a task: she had to help the protagonist defeat the villain if she wanted to return home. She had planned 287Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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23. 223 小 The Little Fairy's Fierce Wolf Lord 小仙女的奶凶狼君 Lychees Don't Cry荔枝不会哭Ancient Romance460k WordsCompleted [Born into the World + System + Mind Reading + Secret Identities + Everyone’s Favorite + White Moonlight] She transmigrates into the body of a country girl. What should she do? Wait, she has cheats? Then of course she’s going to work her fingers to the bone! Hold on, why am I always being told to save people? Do you want me to be some saintly do-gooder? Wait, this world doesn’t seem very friendly! A reborn woman keeps showing up to provoke me? The kind you slap so hard she sticks to the wall and 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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24. 224 鬼 The Ghost King’s Spoiled Foolish Consort 鬼王强宠：傻妃太嚣张 Guo Xiaojiu果小九Ancient Romance189k WordsCompleted [Two powerful leads + secret identities + sweet romance + one-on-one] Ye Qingling is divorced the day after she transmigrates. The scheming Ghost King brings the fool home, and everyone declares that she won't survive more than a few days. They all end up eating their words. The princess consort has secret identities everywhere, and the prince must not only pamper her, but also keep other people from getting ideas about her. When she kills, he sharpens her blades; when she attracts admirers, he 26Reads8.2Score—Shelves
25. 225 在 Sweetening His Heart 在他心尖上撒糖 Want a Pear?吃不吃梨呀Modern Romance286k WordsCompleted [Unruly young prince × sweet, gentle white moonlight, SC, HE] Zhong Wan fell for someone when she was eighteen. That day, she was volunteering for the first time and met the handsome guy she'd secretly admired for ages. She was stuck at the teaching building's turnstile in a little white rabbit mascot costume, unable to get in or out. In a hurry, Wen Yan picked her up and squeezed through with her. The chance to hit on her crush was too good to miss. Summoning every ounce of courage she had, Zho 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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26. 226 要 Help! The Ascetic Prince Is Too Seductive! 要命！禁欲王爷太撩人！ Red as Jade红如玉Ancient Romance1.0M WordsOngoing [Sweet Romance] Qin Qin has barely transmigrated and hasn’t even had a chance to enjoy herself when the emperor arranges her marriage. Isn’t that a little too much excitement?! And isn’t her betrothed, Prince Jun, the cold-faced God of War, supposed to be an ascetic prince? Then who is this bewitching man in front of her, making her swoon so hard her nose starts to bleed?! 428Reads—Score—Shelves

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27. 227 山 Snow Flying Over Mountains and Rivers 山河飞雪 Little Mian Is Good小面乖Ancient Romance619k WordsCompleted She was the legitimate daughter of a powerful general whose influence reached across the court, and her mother was a renowned martial artist from a prestigious martial arts clan. She grew up carefree and clever, surrounded by her parents’ love and her elder brother’s protection. But her mother’s sudden death thrust her, still innocent and naive, into the treacherous political struggles of the Great Zhao court. From being cherished by everyone to having nothing at all, fate remade her, forcing he 11Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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28. 228 穿 I Became the Whole Village's Favorite After Becoming a Wicked Stepmother 穿成恶毒后娘我成了全村的团宠 Rising Higher Every Day登登日上Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Assassin Xiang Qingyao had retired from the killing trade when a plane crash sent her into the body of an ugly widow in a farming village. Now she has to raise four odd little brats. Xiang Qingyao wonders, should she just die again? Her vile relatives want to sell them for cash. Xiang Qingyao says, “Come on, tell me how you want to die.” A guileful but honest, good-natured young man says, “Qingyao, I’ll do anything you ask. Just don’t leave me.” A handsome, flirtatious young county magistrate sa 7kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves

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29. 229 被 Dumped by Her Fiancé, She Wears Her Wedding Dress and Marries the Fiercest Evil Prince 被退婚后，她穿喜服强嫁最猛邪王 Shu Yao舒妖Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Two strong leads + faithful to each other + punishing scum + pocket dimension + strong heroine + physician heroine + sweet romance] She was Luo Jiuli, a military doctor from the 21st century. After transmigrating, she became the Princess Consort of Prince Zhao in the Changning Dynasty, abandoned in a side residence and left to die in childbirth with her baby. She arrived in a blaze of glory. Who would dare bully her? She killed the vicious servants, set Prince Zhao’s residence on fire, beat the 4.4kReads9.3Score802Shelves
30. 230 诱 Luring the Lord into His Embrace 诱君宠 Queen Julian朱莉安女王Ancient Romance300k WordsCompleted [The animated series “Win Your Lord's Heart: My Troubled Prince” is now streaming. We hope you'll show it your support.] Shen Yu, a modern-day doctor, is murdered by her senior fellow and transmigrates into the body of the eldest daughter of the Shen family. The eldest Shen daughter is breathtakingly beautiful, but her fiancé sets her up and forces her to marry the brutal Prince of Qi. At first, Shen Yu ties her handkerchief around the prince's wrist. “This handkerchief is like me. As long as yo 21.2kReads9.4Score2.8kShelves
31. 231 医 I Can Cure Every Disease! I Transmigrated with an Operating Room to Save the Crippled Prince 医百病！我带手术室穿越救残王 Demon Xiaomi妖小米Ancient Romance2.2M WordsCompleted Title: [The Darling Princess Consort Has Arrived, Making the Prince Blush and Lose His Composure] [Sweet Romance]+ [Both Leads Are Faithful]+ [Marriage Before Love]+ [Healing] Shui Luolan is forced into marriage with a good-for-nothing prince from the start! The prince can't take care of himself? No problem. Luolan will clean him up, even when he needs help using the toilet. The prince is bedridden and paralyzed? No problem. Luolan transmigrated with an operating room and can treat him. The mome 30.5kReads9.2Score5.2kShelves
32. 232 奸 The Treacherous Official's Wife: A Book-Transmigrated Heroine's Farming Life 奸臣之妻：书穿女配好种田 Youyou Doesn't Eat Spicy Food柚柚不吃辣Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Farming + sweet romance + family bonds + political intrigue + healing + comedy] Cui Wantang had lived with her old charlatan of a master, dependent on each other. After he died, she was left all alone. Then one day, she transmigrated into a book she hadn't finished reading, becoming the wife of the villainous minister. [The book said Song Yu was a smiling tiger, ruthless and cruel, a lackey and a weapon for the antagonist.] But at this point, Song Yu was only a poor young man who hadn't turned 21.9kReads9.4Score3.1kShelves
33. 233 我 My Husband Is Too Frail to Take Care of Himself 我那夫君柔弱不能自理 Qieqie Rong'an惬惬容安Ancient Romance1.7M WordsCompleted A Yan died. She had just turned fourteen that year. But five years after her death, she came back to life. Picking at her toes, she thought for a moment and remembered there was one thing she still hadn’t done. So she hurried through the night to Tianyuan, the foremost of the four great sects in the cultivation world, to find a sickly young man named Wen Qingci. Wen Qingci looked at A Yan, who had broken into Tianyuan Sect in the dead of night, beaten a whole group of disciples, and was now spr 19.1kReads9.3Score2.1kShelves
34. 234 穿 After Transmigrating into a Book, I Spoiled the Villainous Regent 穿书后，我娇养了反派摄政王 Orange Noodles桔子面条Ancient Romance1.9M WordsCompleted [Rugged Hero + Villain + Adorable Kids + Stepmother + Lucky Charm + Everyone’s Favorite] Tang Li transmigrated into a book and became a cannon-fodder female side character, sold to a wild, burly man in the mountains as his wife and made stepmother to three burdensome children! But as it turned out, the rugged man was actually the ruthless main villain from the book! And those three burdensome children were future villains in their own right. In the end, they would be executed by a thousand cuts 9.3kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
35. 235 前 I Died Tragically in My Past Life, Then Was Jilted Again After Being Reborn 前世惨死，重生后又被退婚 Ye Chenhuo叶尘火Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Complete] 1. This story focuses mainly on palace and household intrigue, with very little romance and not much screen time for the male lead. The leads support each other and join forces against their enemies, with no misunderstandings or love rivals. One man and one woman, both pure; a strong heroine and an even stronger hero. The male lead spoils the heroine. 2. This is a fictional setting with no connection to real history. Synopsis: Everyone in the capital knows that the eldest daughter of 16.4kReads9.3Score2.1kShelves
36. 236 冲 The Prince’s Consort, Married to Bring Him Luck, Wants to Stay a Widow 冲喜王妃想守寡 He Xidong何夕东Ancient Romance228k WordsCompleted Social elite Lu Ningning transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing legitimate daughter, sickly and bullied by everyone. Her stepmother poisons her, her half-sister steals her marriage, and her father is a complete scoundrel. An imperial decree orders her, on the brink of death, to marry a prince who could drop dead at any moment, so they can bring each other good luck. The prince's residence is grand, luxurious, and prosperous. If she marries in, she could become a happy rich widow in as 213Reads8.7Score—Shelves
37. 237 惊 Shocking! The Chaste Lord Xu Wants to Marry a Delicate Young Widow 惊！禁欲徐大人要娶娇花小寡妇 Fruit Jelly水果冻冻Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted A new restaurant has opened in Huayang City. Its proprietor is a pretty young widow, with a slender willow waist you could barely encircle with one hand and a gaze that seems to hook you in... People have taken to calling her the “Beguiling Blossom Proprietress.” The stern prefect, who has always kept his desires in check, darkened at the sight and scolded her coldly: “Shameless and depraved!” Later, the aloof Lord Xu, who never paid attention to women, met the beguiling and enchanting proprie 7.1kReads9.3Score879Shelves
38. 238 替 The Substitute Bride: A Marquis's Widow Is No Easy Match 替嫁：侯门寡妇不好当 He Xidong何夕东Ancient Romance600k WordsCompleted [Household intrigue + personal growth + face-slapping + adorable child] 1v1, both leads are virgins Charming stand-in bride, a humble concubine’s daughter × a prince-to-be who returns from the dead. Yuzhu, a concubine’s daughter, is forced to take her elder sister’s place and become a widow in the marquis’s household after her sister is widowed before her wedding. All she wants is to live quietly as a widow, but the marquis’s household is full of danger, and someone is constantly trying to kill 702Reads9.0Score100Shelves
39. 239 外 The Outer Wife 外室之妻 Every Inch Is Gold寸寸金Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Gu Zheng was at her wit’s end with the way her stepmother kept causing trouble. Even though the man looked down on her, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and marry him. She thought she was destined to be a supporting female character in this world, so she lived by the rules and knew her place. Then, in the blink of an eye, her husband turned out to be the Duke’s illegitimate son! He was about to be acknowledged by the family and become the young duke, but the ducal household looked down on 1.4kReads9.0Score343Shelves
40. 240 我 I Find the Top Scholar So Charming 我见探花多娇媚 Yi Ran怡然Ancient Romance1.8M WordsCompleted Jing Bao has three wishes: First, protect the family estate of the main branch; second, enter the Imperial College, place third in the palace examinations, and bring honor to the family; third, keep living as a man in disguise until the end. Lord Gu has three wishes too: First, help someone protect their family estate; second, help that someone place third in the palace examinations; third, bring the disguised top scorer home and make her the mistress of the household. 4.7kReads9.4Score814Shelves
41. 241 公 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 Nanhuang南凰Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [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 19.6kReads9.4Score3.1kShelves
42. 242 逯 Lu Lu Wuwei 逯鹿无为 Laughing All the Way to Riches笑富了Ancient Romance62k WordsOngoing A new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    New themes, new feelings

43. 243 灵 Spirit Realm Station: NPCs and I Upend the System! 灵界镇所：npc与我颠覆系统！ Thirteen-Spice Tea Fire茶火十三香Modern Romance181k WordsOngoing [Two Powerful Leads] [Pure Romance] [Mutual Devotion] [Strong Female Lead] [Decisive and Ruthless] This is an adventure told from a woman's perspective. It's not a wish-fulfillment story, so read with caution. After Shen Ying was reborn in a game world, she acquired a new identity. Why was the starting point for her mission, Spirit Realm Town, suddenly destroyed? Could the childhood friend she's been searching for really have been by her side all along? The Shadow Puppet World, the Reincarnation —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Although I switched from ancient Chinese to modern Chinese, I still want to write down my own book.

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