I’ve Read All the Cultivation and Harem Intrigue Stories. Looking for Political Scheming Like Lü Song’s 书荒了修仙宅斗的都看过了求像吕颂一样的女权谋文

1. 51 娇 The Spoiled Consort's Road to Glory 娇气包娘娘的荣华路 Qingxi Hexi清兮禾兮Ancient Romance385k WordsCompleted Sweet romance! Undivided love! She’s doted on to the max! [The heroine is cunning, a little black lotus hidden beneath a rabbit’s skin] [The hero has a harem and isn’t chaste, but once he meets the heroine, he devotes himself to her alone in a one-on-one romance] The third young lady of the Sheng’an Marquis’s household, born to his secondary wife, was as beautiful as a celestial maiden. Sweet and clever, she knew how to win favor. Her grandmother and father favored her, and even her legitimate 13.3kReads9.2Score1.3k14d adds

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   These few books 😆

2. 52 我 I’m Sweet and Well-Behaved, So Why Am I the Harem’s Only Favorite? 我又乖又美，独宠后宫怎么了？ Yi Jiu Lu宜久录Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Sweet Romance + Harem + No Angst] A lively, stunning beauty + a devastatingly handsome, love-struck good emperor. (He’s love-struck but knows right from wrong) (No cutthroat palace intrigue) (Not a devoted couple) (Fast-paced) (Heroine’s halo) Ji Wanqing transmigrates into the harem of the Emperor of Yan and becomes a low-ranking concubine. The moment she arrives, the arrogant Consort slaps her. The Consort is bad enough, and the Empress is no better, using her to stoke the Consort’s anger. Wit 4.1kReads9.2Score46714d adds
3. 53 穿 Reborn as the Empress Dowager, I Just Want to Take It Easy 穿成太后只想咸鱼 Fei Xi妃玺Ancient Romance2.4M WordsCompleted “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 15.3kReads9.2Score1.6k14d adds

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   Same author, many chapters but very good.

4. 54 踹 After Kicking Over the Dragon Throne, the Entire Court Begged Her to Take the Crown 踹翻龙椅后，满朝文武跪求她登基 Fei Xi妃玺Ancient Romance2.5M WordsCompleted (The heroine focuses on her career, with no romantic pairing. She becomes somewhat cold-hearted and ruthless later on.) Born into the world as a princess, Yu Hui thinks that at last, an incredible fortune has fallen into her lap. She has a palace to live in, money to spend, and status to protect her, so she can enjoy a peaceful, happy life. But peace is out of the question. Calamities keep dropping out of the sky, and they’re heavy ones. Happiness? Not really. Someone is always ending up dead, s 8.4kReads8.8Score71814d adds
5. 55 嫡 The Imperial Princess Divorces Her Husband from the Start, and Every Man at Her Feet Is a Beauty 嫡公主开局休夫，裙下之臣皆绝色 What Can Be Done, Watching What Can Be Done from the Bridge of Helplessness奈何桥上看奈何Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (Transmigrate + satisfying revenge + strong female lead + women’s empowerment + no male lead + everyone’s favorite + pocket dimension) Xiao Lanyue is dead! She was blown to pieces at sea while trying to reclaim China’s imperial jade seal... When she opens her eyes again, she has become the most beloved Eldest Princess of the Xiao Kingdom! A scheming green tea keeps throwing her weight around, while her scumbag husband, Gu Yongxu, repeatedly takes his concubine’s side and hurls cruel words at he 321Reads8.6Score10114d adds

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   ① Xiao Lanyue has transmigrated! She transmigrates into the body of a princess, also named Xiao Lanyue. 💥 She starts by divorcing her husband and is even appointed Regent Princess...🌈 ② He is a renowned and charming scholar, showered with favor and honor. 🍒 Until the Du family falls and he hangs himself in prison, everyone realizes she is a "woman." 🍀 ③ Arriving in prison, the female lead is very "panicked." 🍀 Who says women are inferior to men? Watch how the female lead, disguised as a man, navigates the power struggles of ancient times. 🍒

6. 56 权 The Alluring Powerful Minister 权臣妖娆 Minced Meat and Fried Egg肉沫跑蛋Ancient Romance960k WordsCompleted Also known as The Female Top Scorer and The Female Imperial Tutor. He was a celebrated, charmingly elegant top scorer, showered with every favor under the heavens. Only after the Du family was destroyed and he hanged himself in prison did the world learn that “he” was a woman! After her father's death, the family's good name was ruined. Dozens of loyal servants starved to death. The beautiful women of the household were either made into servants or reduced to playthings for officials. Reborn, Du 3.3kReads9.1Score43514d adds
7. 57 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, 3.7kReads9.1Score47514d adds
8. 58 我 I Really Don't Want to Live Off a Woman 我真不想吃软饭 One Chestnut One一栗子一Urban1.6M WordsCompleted I transmigrated to a world where women outrank men. Because I’m so handsome, people keep telling me I should stop trying so hard and let them support me. But I’m a proud man, and I absolutely refuse to live off a woman! Ahem… Actually, this is pretty great… 1.7kReads9.0Score17914d adds

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   Feminism, strategy, a very enjoyable read.

9. 59 一 One Arrow Pierces the Clouds, Calling Matched Souls Together 一支穿云箭，匹配者们来相见 Treading Across the Cloudy Mountains踏破云山Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted [Apocalypse + alien species + supernatural powers + spatial realm + transformation + transmigration + partly sci-fi + multiple match partners + expansive worldbuilding + strong female lead (growing combat power, etc.) + strong male leads (intelligence, emotional intelligence, laziness, optimism, straightforwardness, etc.)] Alien species invade, Earth's continents fracture and fuse together, and humanity mutates across the globe. Chen Qian spends three years killing countless monsters after tra 21.4kReads9.2Score2.6k14d adds
10. 60 我 I Take Life in Stride in a Matriarchal World 我在女尊淡然处世 West Wind at the Long Pavilion长亭西风肆Eastern Fantasy764k WordsCompleted [Focused on dark corruption and a harem of obsessive beauties] When he opened and closed his eyes, Luo Chen had transmigrated. Since things had come to this, he would take it in stride. This world had its own story, but he had to return. The original story was not over yet. 3.3kReads9.0Score23114d adds
11. 61 智 Wise Men Avoid Love, and the Noble Consort Wants No Responsibility 智者不入爱河，贵妃不想负责 Uncle Luo洛叔叔Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Being a beggar would be better than being in the harem. Shen Qing is despairing over her current identity. The female lead won't appear for another two years, and Shen Qing is the lowest-ranking consort in the male lead's harem. Her father is useless, and she has neither money nor power. It seems her only option is to wait for the emperor's favor. To make matters worse, she has a face that attracts trouble. If she fights for influence, she has no leverage; if she doesn't, she'll just get bullied 47.7kReads9.5Score6.1k14d adds

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    Both are female Zhuge Liangs, representing ancient political strategies.

12. 62 宠 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 Zhi Zhi之知Ancient Romance640k WordsCompleted 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 87.6kReads9.5Score12k14d adds
13. 63 宫 A Palace Maid's Guide to Staying Alive 宫女保命准则 Wu Naihe吴奈何Ancient Romance77k WordsCompleted Yu Hexue was a wine maker in the Imperial Food Bureau. Before serving wine to her masters, one of her duties was to test it for poison. It sounded dangerous, but she had never heard of anyone being poisoned to death while testing food. Yet this very thing happened to her. In the seventh year of Zhengping, during the New Year's Eve palace banquet, she was poisoned to death in Shuanghua Hall. She died in the arms of the Third Prince, Yuan Yu, becoming his scapegoat. When she woke, she had returned 165Reads8.9Score1314d adds
14. 64 吾 My Phoenix Returns 吾凰归来 Li Er'er李尔尔Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [A classic rebirth story, political intrigue and revenge, with a heroine focused on building her own career] The empress of the Kingdom of Nanyue, a legitimate daughter of a military family. She was the Prince of Yu's consort for two years and a benevolent empress for four, yet when she went into labor one day, the man she loved cut open her belly and killed their child. His reason was that she was a demon empress who would bring ruin to the nation, and that the child she bore would surely kill 1.9kReads9.1Score23914d adds
15. 65 死 Five Years After Her Death, the Sickly Heir Still Wants to Marry Her 死后五年！病娇世子仍要以身相许 Cat Bean Rice猫豆米Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Strong heroine + devoted couple + revenge on scoundrels + sweet romance; less romance in the early chapters] She was well-read, strategic, and beautiful. She could ride in white with a red horse, spear in hand, and take on enemy generals. She could also command from behind the scenes and secure victory from a thousand miles away. After being reborn, all she wanted was revenge, then to live a peaceful, prosperous life with her family. But no one had warned her what to do when a talkative man kep 227Reads9.1Score—14d adds

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    It might not quite meet your requirements, but this one is also very good; it's a political intrigue novel.

16. 66 南 The South Is a Great Wall 南方是长城 Eating a Thousand Sheets of Paper吃千张纸Ancient Romance380k WordsOngoing [Not a wish-fulfillment story. Personal growth + national and family vengeance + romance if any. Palace and household intrigue, tearjerker melodrama: I swear on my life, there’s absolutely none.] This is a long story. One day, A Mu Gulan transmigrated. She discovered that she was a Xiongnu, and that the Great Wall was built to keep her out. She was the barbarian in “I’ll feast on barbarian flesh to sate my hunger,” and the Xiongnu in “I’ll drink Xiongnu blood to slake my thirst.” It took her man 2Reads6.5Score—14d adds

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    A very novel perspective, and the writing is quite good. I hope more people will read this book.

17. 67 手 With the Notable Ministers System in Hand, I Disguise Myself as a Man in Ancient Times 手拿名臣系统，我在古代女扮男装 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 119.8kReads9.6Score11.5k14d adds

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    I think these books are all good; the middle two are about women disguised as men.

18. 68 新 Jilted on My Wedding Night, I Bond with the Grand Agricultural Official System 新婚夜被鸽后我绑定了大司农系统 Zucchini Is on the Pumpkin Team西葫芦是南瓜派Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Women in government + farming and infrastructure + satisfying revenge with light comedy + career-focused with a little romance + male lead in a supporting role + beloved by everyone + romance after an arranged marriage] Lin Ran transmigrates to a fictional dynasty and gains a grandmother obsessed with chanting sutras, a father who brings bad luck to his wives, a bookish second younger brother, a wastrel third younger brother, an influential family by marriage, and a misfit System that hounds he 9.3kReads9.4Score1.4k14d adds
19. 69 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 17.2kReads9.4Score2.7k14d adds

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    A reading slump? Impossible, there's simply no way I could finish reading them all.

20. 70 夫 My Husband Gives Me Two Hundred Thousand Taels a Month 夫君每月给我二十万两 Having Met the Young Master既见公子Ancient Romance768k WordsCompleted [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 29.1kReads9.4Score3.7k14d adds
21. 71 多 Surely You Laugh at My Passion 多情应笑我 Jiu Xiaoqi酒小七Ancient Romance216k WordsCompleted 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 70.3kReads9.7Score9.3k14d adds
22. 72 王 The Princess Consort Is Poor and Miserable, and Loves to Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger 王妃她又穷又苦，还喜欢扮猪吃虎 Knowing My Heart安知我意Ancient Romance553k WordsCompleted Wen Yu, the chancellor's son famous throughout the capital, was a good-for-nothing who spent all day shirking his studies and loafing around. The night before, her father had just dragged her out of a brothel. The next day, she passed the imperial examinations and came first. Not a single person in the capital believed she could place first. They all marveled that she had such a good father! Even Wen Yu herself found it hard to believe. She couldn't help asking her father, “Did you bribe the exa 4.8kReads9.2Score49714d adds
23. 73 爱 My Concubine, Be Good and Give Me a Kiss 爱妃听话，就亲一下 The Twenty-First Day of the Eleventh Month冬月二十一Ancient Romance324k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + goofy comedy + winning back his wife + mind reading + both leads have only ever been with each other] Not a superpowered female-lead power fantasy!!! More of an everyday-life story. Gorgeous, soft, and determined to lie flat as a concubine vs. a cold, calculating, but purehearted emperor What should you do after becoming a cannon-fodder supporting character? Use your knowledge of the plot to defy fate? Of course... not! Shen Nanyi’s motto in life: Lie flat and double 622Reads9.2Score10214d adds
24. 74 女 The Female Side Character Doesn't Want to Follow the Plot 女配她不想走剧情 Writing by the River河边开文Ancient Romance357k WordsCompleted (Sweet romance + transmigrate into a book + imaginary setting with no logic + the male lead is secretly passionate and falls first) Liu Yi transmigrated into a book, landing in a rebirth novel as a doomed villainess… To avoid dying miserably and being tossed into a mass grave, she had one plan: stay away from the male and female leads, and from the heroine’s younger brother, who was destined to become the future chief minister’s right-hand man. As long as she stayed alive, that was enough. But 3.4kReads8.5Score26114d adds
25. 75 王 After Being Reborn, the Princess Consort's First Thought Is to Find a New Husband 王妃重生后，第一件事就想换夫君 Xiao Tianyi小甜一Ancient Romance394k WordsCompleted Su Wan, the Princess Consort of Prince Zhao, who died young of consumption in her previous life, has been reborn. Looking back on her previous life, she had been gentle and virtuous, managing the household with propriety, all the while trying to warm the heart of her husband, a man as cold as ice. The result was only too predictable: She failed to melt the ice and instead wore herself out, riddled with ailments at a young age, before dying in her prime. Reborn, Su Wan thinks things over carefull 14.2kReads9.1Score1.1k14d adds
26. 76 穿 After Transmigrating as the True Heiress and a Cannon Fodder, I Decided to Lie Flat 穿成炮灰真千金后，我躺平了 Curly Clouds卷卷云Ancient Romance439k WordsCompleted Warning: [1. This isn't a power fantasy, and it's a slow burn. 2. Lying low doesn't mean waiting to die; revenge doesn't mean charging straight in. 3. The heroine doesn't have some amazing golden finger that lets her do whatever she wants to whoever she wants. 4. The System is pretty useless too; its main role is to keep her company.] Gu Jinx i, an orphan in the modern world, is transported into an ongoing novel after a car accident. She becomes the book's biggest sacrificial pawn, the real daug 3.9kReads8.9Score31014d adds
27. 77 很 I Need You So Much 很需要你 A Night Without Stars没有星星的夜Ancient Romance856k WordsCompleted I am a beloved princess. My mother and father love me even more than they love my older brother and younger sister. But when foreign envoys arrived, long-suppressed resentment threatened to kill me. One feared my mother, while the other feared the court officials. That was the only reason they had let me live until now. I have no choice but to leave this place. I have met the person I love and respect most in this life. I will make the whole world bow before me. Thank you for reading, commenting 1Reads—Score—14d adds
28. 78 穿 Everyone Gets a Bad Ending After I Transmigrate Into a Book 穿书后全员be A Yiyiyiyi阿艺艺艺艺Ancient Romance34k WordsCompleted Pei Yuqing unexpectedly found herself in ancient times while shopping. She rescued the handsome Jiang Nianxue, and the two weathered hardships together, helped each other, and began a life of farming. She thought she was the chosen one, the person destined to spend her life with Jiang Nianxue. But when the true heroine appeared, she finally came to her senses and realized how foolish she had been. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Everyone gets a bad ending. The heroine doesn't know at first t —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    A very realistic time travel

29. 79 穿 Reborn as the Cannon-Fodder Foil, a Woman in a Man's Body Raising Kids and Farming 穿成炮灰对照组，女穿男养崽种田 Lutai Ge鹿台歌Ancient Romance740k WordsOngoing [Woman Transmigrates into a Man + Minor Golden Finger + Farming + Business + Conquering a Chaotic Age + Has a Wife] Xu Ling, an older unmarried woman from the modern era, dies suddenly and transmigrates into the body of a scumbag from ancient times who beats his wife and favors sons over daughters. Is this the collapse of human nature, or the downfall of morality? Worse still, she's the cannon-fodder foil in a novel, and the more miserable her life is, the more the protagonists' brilliance shine 73Reads9.3Score—14d adds

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