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Wasn’t This an Arranged Marriage? Why Is Lord Pei So in Love with Me? 不是联姻吗？裴大人怎么这么爱
Jiang Shiyuan spent ten years pursuing Shen Lüchu, only to receive four words on her eighteenth birthday: “You make me sick.” So Jiang Shiyuan, the girl who made Shen Lüchu sick, turned around and agreed to her family’s arranged marriage, preparing to marry into the Pei family. The Pei family was the most powerful clan in the capital, with influence that reached the heavens, far beyond what Jiang Shiyuan could aspire to. Fortunately, the family was full of talented men, but one grandson, Pei
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After Faking Her Death in Disguise as a Man, She Starts Playing the Frail, Scheming Green Tea 女扮男装死后，她开始演柔弱绿茶
The print edition of [Playing Coy] is available on all platforms. [The heroine is everyone’s beloved, with maximum “moonlight in the heart” appeal + doted on by all + universally adored + strong female lead] Qin Buwen disguised herself as a man and played the part of a treacherous official for sixteen years. At the height of her infamy, everyone in Chang’an, even the dogs, would go out of their way to avoid her. Then she was betrayed and abandoned by everyone. She leapt from a tall building, onl
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Lord Tutor, Stop Pretending. Everyone Knows You’re Head Over Heels 太傅大人别装了，都知道你爱惨了
[Reborn] [One-on-one romance, devoted couple, happy ending] Original title: The Zither and Flute Went Astray [Devoted, restrained aloof beauty of a powerful minister ✖️ resilient, brave heiress known as the Phoenix] The Zhu family has lost all its sons, but still has more money than it could ever spend. Their prominence makes them a target, and with no allies to turn to, the entire family was executed by the crown prince in her previous life. Reborn, Zhu Zheng agrees to her grandmother's
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The Chief Minister's Cherished Noble Wife 首辅娇宠天家贵妻
[Sweet Romance] + [Age Gap] + [Mutual Firsts] To ensure peace in the court and security for the Jiang family, Princess Zhaohua was forced to marry Shen Huaixiu, Minister of Revenue and Grand Secretary of the Cabinet. She was radiant and alluring, but had an ulterior motive. He was gentle and refined, yet kept secrets of his own. After their wedding, they should have stayed out of each other’s way, but one of them lost his heart, and the other fell in love. “Your Highness, may I ask where this ja
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Long-Planned: The Chief Councilor’s Daily Devotion to His Wife 蓄谋已久：首辅大人的宠妻日常
“The rating just came out, so it’ll go up later.” Sweet, delicate beauty × scheming powerful official. A marriage that turns into tooth-achingly sweet love! “The aloof beauty comes down from her pedestal of her own accord.” A spring palace painting leads to “bedroom lessons,” and the heart-fluttering moments just won’t stop! Reading guide: Both leads are virgins, happy ending, sweet romance with no angst, sugar from beginning to end! Qin Nuan married Shen Yanqing, the Chief Minister who was the
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- 6 The Powerful Minister Pursues His Wife: He Says He'd Even Accept Being Her Lover! 权臣追妻，他说外室他也愿意！ The rating has just come in, so it’ll go up later~ The male lead starts out on top, then turns into a devoted lapdog later. There’s a little political scheming and domestic drama. The satisfying face-slapping comes later. This isn’t a strong-female-lead story either, so don’t read it if that’s not your thing. "Beautiful, fair-skinned, voluptuous, innocent heroine vs. a man who doesn’t realize he’s in love until he’s on his knees pursuing his wife" "Powerful minister pursues his wife ➕ both leads 2.3kReads8.1Score217Shelves
- 7 My Sister and I Are to Marry the Same Man? I Won't Marry the Crown Prince, I Want the Regent 姐妹同嫁？我不嫁太子我要摄政王 The possessive, jealous regent x the sweet, silly Princess Mingyue The heroine is the kind of person who doesn’t have to lift a finger for someone to fall in love with her! "Historical romance + reborn + in their previous life, the hero secretly loved her and died with her + in this life, he competes for her and refuses to let her go + both are devoted to each other + happy ending + sweet romance + no angst for the heroine" In both their past and present lives, Wen Ruan is Shen Ye’s wife. In t 36.1kReads8.7Score6.3kShelves
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Longing to Be a Widow 盼寡
[A top-tier lovesick prince who wins himself over vs. a talented noblewoman who longs to be widowed] [Marriage first, love later + sweet ancient romance + transmigrate] Prince Xie Huaijin of Jing is renowned throughout the capital for his looks, and equally renowned for his frail health. With his legs crippled as well, he has reached twenty-three without a wife. After all, no one wants to become a widow in the flower of their youth, especially when they might end up an actual widow at any moment
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- 9 Mind Reading: Help! Your Father-in-Law Is Impossible to Woo, Crown Princess 读心术：救命！太子妃你爹太难撩 [Mind Reading + System + Transmigrate into a Book + Marriage First, Love Later + Devoted Couple] Jiang Fu transmigrated. The bad news: she became a cannon-fodder supporting female character. The good news: the female lead's father saved her. The bad news: the original cannon-fodder asked Jiang Fu to give her a different life. No more being cannon fodder: she wanted a lifetime of happiness and to marry well. The good news: Jiang Fu was rescued from the water by the female lead's father, making hi 27.7kReads9.2Score3.5kShelves
- 10 The Treacherous Official's Wife: A Book-Transmigrated Heroine's Farming Life 奸臣之妻：书穿女配好种田 [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 25.1kReads9.4Score3.6kShelves
- 11 The Lucky Little Wife Who Brings Prosperity to Her Husband 家有旺夫小福妻 On the day Cheng Wulang of the Cheng family in Jiqing Village, Bali Town, married a bride to bring him good luck, the bride was switched for a little girl who hadn’t even grown up yet. The entire village waited to laugh at them. But after the little girl joined the family, the Chengs’ lives changed beyond recognition. The sickly husband she married later became the chief minister. The close friends she picked up along the way turned out to be princesses and commandery princesses. Even the nephew 10.1kReads9.4Score1.6kShelves
- 12 Becoming Empress of the Realm by Pretending to Be the Chancellor's Widowed Sister-in-Law 母仪天下，从冒充丞相寡嫂开始 [Revenge + Face-Slapping the Scum + Lighthearted + Sweet Romance] When you’re out in the world, you can choose your own identity. To infiltrate high society and avenge the massacre of her sister’s family, Feng Qingsui decides to pose as the distant cousin of a prestigious household. But just as she’s about to seek their help, the household she picked is raided by the Imperial Guards. She tries another family. Raided. Then another. Raided again. At her wit’s end, she knocks on the door of the “Pr 24kReads9.4Score4kShelves
- 13 Reborn as the Cannon-Fodder Original Wife of a Mad Power-Hungry Minister 穿成疯批权臣的炮灰原配 [Farming + Transmigrate into a Book + Sweet Romance] Witty, scheming girl vs. lovesick, obsessive powerbroker Xin Yueying transmigrates into a book, landing in an old-fashioned, preachy novel as the wicked wife of the deranged, obsessive second male lead. Shen Qingqi is the novel’s deranged, villainous male character. Born into a family of famed generals, he was imprisoned alongside the Shen family after his father offended powerful nobles. He suffered terribly in prison and was left with crippl 30.1kReads9.3Score10.6kShelves
- 14 Marry a Powerful Official and Become a Widow? The Transmigrate-Into-a-Book Side Character Won’t Stand for It! 嫁权臣守活寡？穿书女配不干了！ [Transmigrate into a book + everyone’s favorite + devoted couple + putting scumbags in their place + no mistresses or misunderstandings + everyone speaks their mind] Jiang Yuzhu transmigrated into a book, becoming the ill-fated first wife of Xie Zhao, the male lead of A Great Chancellor. From the start, she was handed a disaster: the original Jiang Yuzhu was on her way to have an affair, set up by her own eldest brother. According to the original story, after sleeping with a scumbag, Jiang Yuzhu 7.8kReads8.9Score928Shelves
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The Wicked Supporting Lady Is Doomed to Live as a Widow? Brother-in-Law, I’m Scared 恶毒女配守活寡？夫兄，人家好怕
[Elder Brother Steals Younger Brother’s Wife + Deliberate Seduction] (Black-hearted scheming villainess ✖️ abstinent, cold-hearted junior tutor) In her previous life, Pei Jingxu remained a widow for three years for her husband, Rong Xuanzhou, who had died in battle. But then he returned to the capital with Bai Shutong, the widow of his comrade-in-arms, and her two children. The Rong family elders said nothing, only urging Pei to be virtuous and magnanimous. The widow was peerlessly beautiful. No
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Only After Being Reborn Did I Learn I Was the Cool and Aloof Minister's White Moonlight 重生才知，我竟是清冷权臣白月光
[Revenge on scumbags + sweet romance + switched marriages + reborn heroine vs. transmigrated heroine + a seemingly aloof, secretly twisted beauty] In her previous life, Chu Mingyuan learned only as she lay dying that the younger sister who had secretly been sleeping with her husband was not born to her late mother. She was actually a concubine-born daughter who had been switched at birth by a concubine. Chu Mingyuan died with regrets. Thankfully, Heaven took pity on her, and after her death she
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Wasn’t I Supposed to Be Cannon Fodder? How Did I Become the Beloved Little Princess? 不是炮灰吗？怎么成团宠小公主了
(Bright, sweet-looking but secretly sharp-tongued, delicate girl x cool, restrained, gloomy older man x lighthearted sweet romance x everyone’s darling x devoted couple x feel-good revenge story x ensemble cast early on) Note: The heroine is irresistible to everyone, and every encounter turns into a love rivalry. Xie Jingyue transmigrates into an ancient kingdom as a disregarded, ill-fated little princess whose father doesn’t love her and whose mother is gone. Her System is useless, and there’s
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The Princess Is Spoiled and Willful, and the Cold-Faced General Defies His Station 公主娇纵，冷面将军以下犯上
[Both leads are each other's first and only love + intense push and pull + over-the-top pampering + fiercely possessive] [Willful, scheming little princess X cold, ruthless, calculating young general] Shen Ran didn't want to be sent off in a political marriage. On the journey back to the capital under Xie Yanli's escort, she thought up a hundred ways to make him let her go. Play the victim: No. Pretend to be sick: No. Act obedient: No. Seduce him: Yes. She realized Xie Yanli wasn't impossi
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Toying with the Chaste Regent? He Kissed Me Senseless on the Night of the Palace Banquet 玩弄禁欲摄政王？宫宴夜，被亲哭
[Transmigrate into a book + sweet romance + powerful man bows his head + mad minister + dog training + devoted couple] Jiang Ruan transmigrates into a book as a villainous heiress who won’t survive three chapters. The heroine drugs her, the scumbag male lead forces her into bed, and the empress dowager orders her to accept an arranged marriage. In the end, her entire family is wiped out, and she meets a tragic end. To stay alive, she clings to the most untouchable villain in the whole book, weep
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- 20 Flirting with the Grand Tutor: Strangers in Public, Like Spouses in Private 勾太傅，人前不熟人后如做了夫妻 Main story complete (award-winning entry in the Fifth Online Literature Contest) While the top-ranking scholar husband slept soundly, Song Lian clung to the immaculate and upright Grand Tutor of the court, sobbing, "Please, save me..." What had she done wrong? She just didn't want to die. The family rules were merciless, the Grand Princess would suffer no rivals, and her husband wanted to become the princess's consort. Song Lian had only one way out: hang herself. So she summoned her courage and 140.3kReads9.2Score20.3kShelves
- 21 The Mad Empress Has Schemed for Years, but the Cool Imperial Tutor Is Too Seductive 疯批女帝蓄谋久，清冷帝师太撩人 [A harrowing portrait of humanity, all characters are villains. Two mad leads, two heroines, no moral restraints, political power, and a tragic BE. Don’t be fooled by the title or opening.] There is no right or wrong in this world. Everyone is simply doing what they must in their own position. She had fallen for her once, but it was only that: she had fallen for her… She spent her life plotting revenge, only to die with her deepest hatred unavenged. She was never loved, and lost her freedom fore 3.4kReads9.3Score389Shelves
- 22 A Young Lady's Highborn Match: The Broad-Shouldered, Narrow-Waisted Minister Is Irresistible 姑娘高嫁，宽肩窄腰权臣真香 (The Ascetic Minister Is Pulled from His Pedestal: Rebirth + feel-good revenge + putting scumbags in their place + sweet romance) Only after Jiang Yueyao died did she learn that her killer was the little beggar she had raised for seven years. The little beggar had transformed into Lu Hengqing, the noble third young master of the Duke of Ying’s household. To erase every shameful trace of his past and marry a noble lady from the capital, he secretly had her killed. Thankfully, Heaven took pity on 16.3kReads8.6Score2kShelves
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I Can't Tame Him, So the Tyrannical Official Raises Someone Else's Little Sister Until He Goes Mad 教不乖，佞臣替人养妹被逼疯
[Completed. Traditional historical romance + a disgraced, murderous eunuch wielding immense imperial power + a pitiful girl dependent on others + two people with more schemes than you can count] The young general was a wolf fighting on the battlefield, with a soft, fair little rabbit sister tucked away at home, tempting everyone who saw her. When the general died in battle, the frivolous, lecherous nobles raided the rabbit's burrow. Before they could even get a taste, Xie Kan, the chief eunuch o
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Bound Together Across Two Lifetimes, We’ll Grow Old Together 双世缱绻，与君共白头
[Two powerful leads who rise to greatness | Complete souls | Extreme contrast | Love across two lifetimes | Sweet romance and court intrigue] A modern married couple are reborn as babies in the Tianqi Dynasty. He becomes an iron-fisted Crown Prince, commands the Xuanhuo Army, and plots to industrialize the realm. She becomes a queen of commerce, controls trade routes along three borders, and holds the lifeblood of the people in her hands! Toward their enemies, he presides over the execution of t
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The Marquis's Second Legitimate Daughter Turns Her Back on Everyone 侯府嫡二小姐翻脸不认人
One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins, sweet romance, aloof male lead, Minister of Justice Wei Heng, Minister of Justice, is a cold-faced King of Hell, ruthless and iron-fisted. No official in the court dares approach him. One day, while investigating a case outside the capital, he found a disheveled woman by a stream. When she woke, she looked around in confusion and said her family had fallen on hard times and she had come from elsewhere to find her fiancé. She had no memory of anything
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After the Grand Princess Is Reborn, the Chief Grand Secretary Can No Longer Sit Still 长公主重生后，首辅大人坐不住了
[Rebirth + Political Intrigue + Powerful Hero and Heroine + Plenty of Foreshadowing + Serious Ensemble Cast] [Charming, Alluring, Sweet-Natured Yet Cunning Eldest Princess + Autocratic, Possessive Chief Grand Secretary] [Important: This is NOT a wish-fulfillment novel!!!] As a princess, Zhao Huiluan lived in luxury and honor, yet died in the prime of her life. Reborn, she finally realized that all the countless honors and favors she had once been proud of were nothing but illusions. Power is saf
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Married First, Love Later: The Substitute Bride, the Heir's Wife, Wants a Divorce 先婚后爱，替嫁世子妃要和离
[Marry First, Fall in Love Later + Mutual Fidelity + Face-Slapping + Sweet Romance + Transmigration + Passionate Entanglement] After transmigrating, Jiang Zhixi's life is full of twists and turns. She takes down her cousin, drives off the scheming women, and faces a clingy fox on the outside and a den of wolves and tigers within. Her husband is not what he seems. By day, he leisurely rides horses, appearing to outsiders as a good-for-nothing playboy who will never amount to anything. But in t
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- 28 After I Transmigrated Into a Book, I Married the Villain and Was Spoiled Into a Couch Potato 穿书后，嫁给反派被宠成咸鱼 [Transmigrate into a book + marriage first, love later + lighthearted and a little goofy + sweet romance, both leads are each other’s first and only] After more than twenty years of struggling to grow up, Qin Fei transmigrated into a book and wanted nothing more than to lie low. But her original character was destined to be cannon fodder, so to save herself and change her fate, she gritted her teeth and married the ruthless, vicious villain of the story. The book said that Cen Hejue was a notori 2kReads9.0Score256Shelves
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Mistakenly Bound to the Eunuch, He Helps Me Ascend the Throne 错绑九千岁，他助我登临帝位
[War-God Grand Princess × Lord Eunuch: Fierce and ruthless to outsiders, proud and devoted to her] “Women rule” + “Court intrigue” + “Both pure” + “Power couple” Ye Shumei returns from battle to find that her fiancé, Wen Zhijin, is going to marry her imperial younger sister. How could she possibly put up with that? If you’re going to be so unreasonable, then I’ll just... On a dark, windy night, she climbed over the wall into the Grand Tutor’s residence and hauled someone back to her villa in a s
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Reborn as a Frail Sacrificial Character, I’m Doted on by a Cruel Official 穿成病弱炮灰，被阴戾权臣强宠了
[An unconventional transmigration-into-a-book political intrigue story, with no palace or household infighting. A serious tone, a subdued plot, and few power-fantasy moments.] Shen Suiwan transmigrated into a book, specifically a story about a true and false legitimate daughter. But she was neither the fake legitimate daughter of breathtaking beauty nor the true legitimate daughter who excelled in both arms and letters. She was the legitimate daughter's cousin, an early-death cannon-fodder chara
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- 31 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 13.6kReads9.4Score2.3kShelves
- 32 What Do I Do? I Was Forced to Become the Stepmother of a Mouthy Brat 怎么办？被迫成了杠精崽子的后娘 Tags: Everyday child-rearing, married first then falling in love, fictional dynasty, no need to research the details Modern office worker Luo Chaoyan has always had terrible luck. One day, a typhoon sweeps her into an unfamiliar ancient era. Her father is a minor fifth-rank official, and her mother is the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Jizhou. She thinks she’ll have an easy life this time around, but at a banquet, five-year-old Huo Rui tricks her. She’s forced to marry his father and become 15.2kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
- 33 Good Grief! I Woke Up as the Traitorous Official's Wife, Destined to Die Young 夭寿啦！一睁眼穿成奸臣早死原配 Shen Heng transmigrates into an alternate history as the secret first wife of Xie Jian, the most notorious corrupt chancellor of all time, and finds herself on the way to elope with someone. She doesn't even know where to begin complaining. This is what the Record of True Chancellors says about Xie Jian: Xie Jian, courtesy name Zixuan, was the last chancellor of the Great Cong Dynasty. Through his own efforts, he brought down the dynasty, which had stood for over six hundred years. His life: He 16.9kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves
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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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- 35 Transmigrated as a Treacherous Minister's Legitimate Daughter, She Plays the Part to Perfection 穿成奸臣嫡女，她本色出演 [Transmigrate into a book + Career-focused early on + Sweet romance + One-on-one romance + Both leads are devoted to each other] [Two-faced, ruthless minister's daughter × Wild, formidable iron-faced general] The ruler of the business world transmigrates into a book overnight, becoming the daughter of the treacherous chancellor. She throws her weight around and commits every kind of evil, with the label “vicious supporting female character” practically branded onto her. She's madly pursuing the 86.4kReads9.6Score11.3kShelves
- 36 The Marquis's Estate Forgot Its Gratitude? The Regent Backs Me, and I Won't Forgive Them 侯府忘恩义？摄政王撑腰，不原谅 Luo Ning took a blade meant for the Empress Dowager and suffered severe injuries, trading her life for her family's noble title. She went south to recuperate for three years, but when she returned, she discovered that her maternal cousin had taken over her courtyard. Her cousin had even replaced her in every aspect. Luo Ning's parents and elder brother adored her, her grandmother favored her, and even Luo Ning's childhood sweetheart secretly admired her, saying that she surpassed Luo Ning in eve 177.6kReads9.4Score27kShelves
- 37 After Marrying the Mad Crown Prince to Bring Him Good Fortune 嫁给疯批太子冲喜后 The unfavored legitimate daughter of the Mu family is ordered by imperial decree to marry the crown prince, Zhou Jing, who is at death's door, to bring him good luck. Plenty of people wait to laugh at her, saying she might just end up bringing him luck by killing him in bed. When Zhou Jing opens his eyes, he finds himself with a fiancée. The young woman is clearly terrified of him, but still can't help swearing her loyalty. “Your Highness, I'll treat you very well.” “Your Highness, after you pas 33.4kReads9.4Score4.7kShelves
- 38 The Mad Tyrant Wants to Steal Her: You’re the One Who Tempted Me First! 疯批权臣夺她，是你先勾我的！ [Possessive pursuit + Untouchable beauty brought down from her pedestal + Scheming heroine + Both leads are pure] The eldest son of the Xie family was as refined as a gentle breeze beneath a clear sky, as elegant as an orchid or jade tree, and, more unusually, possessed the heart of a bodhisattva. A year ago, he had taken charge of sheltering a destitute cousin who had come to seek refuge. The rescued Wanruo was deeply grateful, and looked up to and adored her cousin. Their story of a loving bro 244.1kReads9.2Score32.2kShelves
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Lang’s Wife, Huanhuan 琅妻嬛嬛
The manor is deep, and the court is treacherous. Winds rise along the cliffs, and the bright moon is full of affection. When the tides of fate turn and a switch is made, she falls from being the darling of heaven to a mute woman whose beauty has been destroyed. How will she climb out of this abyss and rise again through blood and fire? You are the sun and moon, and the mountains and rivers.
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The Palace Consort Is Held Down and Kissed by the Powerful Eunuch Until She Sobs 娘娘被权宦摁在怀里吻得哭唧唧
[Both leads are each other’s only love + powerful eunuch + sweet romance + soft and delicate heroine] Jiang Mian made three wishes to Heaven. In her previous life, she was born with a heart condition. Her parents, whom she had never even met, abandoned her in the wilderness. Someone later took her in and used her as a human guinea pig for testing medicine, and she died young. So her first wish was for a healthy body. And then she was reborn. Jiang Mian made her second wish on the Spring Society
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When the Sparrow Takes Flight 惊雀起
[Clear-Eyed, Scheming Physician × Distinguished, Cunning Powerbroker] The Relentless Pursuit of a Wife + Romantic Tension + Political Intrigue Without Mindless Wish Fulfillment On a rainy night, she kneels outside the Lu residence. “Please... save my younger sister.” “Song Yuanzhi, you're the daughter of a disgraced official. You have nothing. Why should I help you?” Lu Shiyan asks coldly. She looks up, determination flashing in her eyes. “If you save my sister... I'll give you my virtue, Brothe
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Scarlet Heart (Two-Volume Set) 步步惊心（全二册）
A girl who steps into thin air transmigrates across a thousand years, from the bustling city of Shenzhen to a turbulent imperial court. The princes, embroiled in a struggle for the throne, gaze at her with tender affection, their eyes full of curiosity and temptation, as well as a few traces of genuine and feigned sympathy. She struggles to avoid the tide of history, but those pairs of dark, deep-set eyes hold her fast...
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- 43 Opening a Little Restaurant in Shengjing 我在盛京开小馆 [Alternate world, slow burn, not a wish-fulfillment novel, food + court intrigue + transmigration. Read with caution if that’s not your thing.] Miss Li’s Changhuan Eatery, tucked away on Qingxing Alley, serves delicious food at affordable prices. The officials who get up early for roll call tug at their increasingly tight uniforms, but still can’t help ordering another bowl of fresh pork wontons. Pei Hongzhi happened to eat there once and discovered that Miss Li didn’t just make excellent breakf 27.9kReads9.4Score3.7kShelves
- 44 Bound by Spring 缚春情 [The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef 92kReads9.6Score12.3kShelves
- 45 Dad! Please Stop Rising in Rank. Our Family Really Are Treacherous Officials! 爹！求你别升了，咱家真是奸臣！ Xu Qinghuan transmigrates into a book and becomes the only daughter of Xu Youde, the most corrupt official in all of Great Qian. Looking at the room full of gold and jewels, she doesn’t smile. She knows the entire Xu family will be executed in three years, and she’ll be hung on the city wall as a public warning. Luckily, she binds herself to the “Heartless Riches System.” If she can amass a hundred billion through ruthless profiteering and ruin her reputation, she can take ten billion in retirem 31.4kReads9.0Score6.6kShelves
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Running Away? Baby, Would You Like Me to Lock You Up? 逃跑？宝宝，把你关起来好不好？
[Forced love | Seven-year age gap | The male lead pursues his wife to the crematorium | Devoted couple, happy ending | Runaway pregnancy] After the Ruan family went bankrupt, Ruan Mian was raised by the Shen family. On her twentieth birthday, Shen Wang suddenly returned after spending two years abroad. He was the heir raised by the Shen family, a favored son of heaven in everyone’s eyes: aloof and abstinent. In truth, he was obsessive, domineering, controlling, and wild in bed. “Baby, you’ve
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Paulownia in the Palm 掌中疏桐
The main story is complete. Originally titled A Paulownia in the Palm, the first chapters are free, but the price will go up later! [Mutual Devotion] [Fictional Setting] [Forced Possession] [Beautiful Wife] [Powerful Minister] [Adorable Baby] [Pregnant and on the Run] [Ancient-Era Court Intrigue] [Secret Marriage] Luo Shutong, the most proper young noblewoman in the capital, woke one morning to find Ye Chuan, the all-powerful chief minister, lying beside her. Trembling, she pulled out all the mo
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The Villainess Was Born with a Bewitching Allure, and the Cold-Blooded Power Broker Fell for Her 恶女天生娇骨，清冷权臣他沦陷了
[Reborn villainess ✘ aloof Grand Tutor] [One step at a time, she tempts him ✘ he falls despite himself, fully aware] [Mutual devotion, one couple · not blood brothers · powerful minister steals a wife] Only as she lay dying did Meng Jiangyi learn that she was nothing more than a villainous cannon-fodder character in a story. Her husband faked his death, her mother-in-law despised her, her elder sister made things difficult for her, and three years spent alone in an empty marriage chamber earned
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This Old Lady Is a Master of Medicine and Poison, Reborn to Wreak Havoc 老娘医毒双绝，重生嘎嘎乱杀
Su Hua, a top assassin in the 23rd century, is unmatched in both medicine and poison. On her way back from a mission, her plane explodes, killing her by accident. By a twist of fate, her soul travels to another world, and she is reborn as a legitimate daughter with the same name in the Prime Minister's residence of the Cangfeng Empire on the Tianlan Continent. Her birth mother died young. From childhood, her grandmother showed her no affection, her father ignored her, and her stepmother was sini
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- 50 My Princess Is Sweet and Sassy 我家王妃娇又飒 She is the beautiful and bewitching daughter of the Minister of Revenue, but she is cold-hearted and keeps score over every little thing. If you don't provoke me, I won't provoke you. But no one knows that everyone she takes down is an enemy who caused her death in her past life. One day, she recklessly provokes the famously violent, sickly Prince of Huaiyang. No one knows that when her corpse was left abandoned in the wilderness in her previous life, he was the one who gathered her remains and 598Reads8.7Score104Shelves
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