Please Recommend Ancient Romance Stories Where the Male and Female Leads Scheme Against Each Other 求古言文，男女主互相算计的

1. 1 皇 The Empress Leaped to Her Death, and the Mad Tyrant Wept Until His Eyes Were Red 皇后纵身一跃，疯批暴君哭红了眼 Huang Dandan黄蛋蛋Ancient Romance635k WordsCompleted [One-on-one romance, devoted couple + palace intrigue + regretful pursuit, clear-headed heroine, everyone's unattainable ideal] Meng Tang is a gracious, gentle empress who never competes for favor. Everyone thinks she is a true white lotus standing tall in the harem, and even the tyrant believes it. He takes a new concubine, and she smiles, congratulates him, and arranges for the newcomer to spend the night with him. He sends her restorative medicine, and she obediently takes it, knowing full we 27.9kReads9.3Score2.7kShelves

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   This book has a high rating and is slightly sadistic. The male and female protagonists pretend to love each other and act out each other. Double cleansing + palace fighting + chasing wife in the crematorium. The hostess is sober in the room. The white moonlight of everyone. Her face is gentle: "It is an honor for me to share your Majesty's worries." Until the rebels attacked the city, she jumped on the tower and died in the city, putting down the rebellion.

2. 2 千 Qian Jinhuan 千锦欢 Yun Lingge云翎歌Ancient Romance229k WordsCompleted Completed · [A highly intelligent amnesiac fake princess x a cold, scheming prince] [Not a mindless power fantasy] [Both devoted to each other + classic historical romance + no transmigration, rebirth, or System + political intrigue + doting romance + reunion after a long separation + devotion to country and family + exclusive devotion + the one who got away + happy ending] For twenty years, the second prince of Nantang, Chu Jinyuan, has kept his guard up and trusted no one, until Hua Qianmei ar 393Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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   It's a pure ancient story about Machiavellian love, in which the male and female protagonists doubt each other and plot against each other. The emotional line is very touching (it has just been released so the score is low, but the story is interesting)

3. 3 公 The Princess as a Concubine 公主为妾 Hong Yan Yu Fei鸿雁瑜飞Ancient Romance622k WordsCompleted She was the most honored legitimate ninth princess of the Jiang Kingdom. When her country fell, she became a prisoner and was forced to give herself to Mu Jing, the Prince of Beiding of the Xuan Kingdom, the enemy who had destroyed her homeland. With the blood feud between their families and nations standing between them, how could they ever live together in harmony? She was clever and patient, and swore to avenge her fallen kingdom! He was scheming and arrogant, and feared no risk of raising a 352Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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   🍁①The female protagonist is a princess of a fallen country, and the male protagonist is a newly rich prince. Not only is there hatred between them, but there are also many lives at stake. They are all irresponsible. 🍁②Hunters often appear as prey, and their purpose of approaching each other from the beginning is not simple.

4. 4 上 Spring Affairs in the Capital 上京春事 Egrets in Pairs白鹭成双Ancient Romance400k WordsCompleted Ning Chaoyang rises to become a fourth-rank female official, yet still can’t escape the fate of being traded into a political marriage. She decides to take in a lover to fight back. He must be lowborn, handsome, and preferably too frail to look after himself. She glances to the side and spots a charming young doctor in white. 7.7kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
5. 5 桃 Peach Blossoms Topple the River and Mountains 桃花折江山 Egrets in Pairs白鹭成双Ancient Romance712k WordsCompleted The TV drama Peach Blossoms Reflecting on the Mountains and Rivers, starring Liu Xueyi and Meng Ziyi. Zhao has a beauty named Taohua. Her fate is full of hardship, and she is married off to Wei far away. All she wants is to stay alive and climb her way up. Wei has a handsome chancellor who is ruthless and sharp-tongued, sweet on the surface but treacherous within. He cares nothing for anyone's life, so long as he gets what he wants. Taohua thinks everyone loves beautiful things. Surely he can't 375Reads9.0Score114Shelves
6. 6 书 Trapped in a Book as the Demon Queen: The Sickly Regent Is No Gentleman at Night 书穿妖后：病娇摄政王每晚不当人 Ran Aran冉阿冉Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted After transmigrating into the Great Zhou’s most notorious empress, Su Ruo barely has time to enjoy herself before her life is in danger. A patriotic System comes knocking, asking her to support the young emperor and change the fate of the Great Zhou’s fall. ??? She’s the wicked empress everyone wants dead! Never mind that the young emperor is hopelessly incompetent. Picking a fight with the regent, who holds all the power at court, is just asking to die young, isn’t it? Patriotic System: The reg 2.6kReads9.4Score329Shelves

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   This is true. You can never guess what the men's and women's football teams will do next.

7. 7 钓 A Bewitching Beauty Tames Demons, Only to Be Forced Into a Love Affair by a Yandere 钓系美人驯妖鬼，被病娇强制爱了 Sipping the Moon酌酌不月Ancient Romance746k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + sweet romance + one-on-one + obsessive love + madman + bickering couple + forced love] Scheming flower demon with a sweet face vs. a deranged, obsessive demon spirit Bai Ling transmigrates into a jade hairpin flower demon. After cultivating for a hundred years, she has only just entered the mortal world when she obtains a book of fate. The book tells her that she is the wicked, white-lotus third female lead in a male-oriented monster-hunting novel called The World Wit 3.5kReads9.0Score537Shelves

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   The fair-faced black flower demon VS the madly criticizing yandere demon (super beautiful! Highly recommended)

8. 8 求 Begging for Love 求娇 Three Lives, Three Three叁生三三Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Strong Heroine and Hero] [Love-Hate Relationship] [Defying Fate] [Print edition signed with a publisher] Gu Miaoyin always thought she was the pampered darling her emperor treasured most, until the Great Jin fell and the Northern Hu cavalry smashed through the palace gates. Only then did she realize how tragic her life was. Ten years of the emperor's favor could not withstand a sudden change of heart. In the end, she and her mother were trapped in the imperial city and burned alive. Reborn into 66.6kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves

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   Go check it out. Both the male and female protagonists in these two books have online IQs, and everyone is online

9. 9 幺 The Youngest Daughter, Changle 幺女长乐 Kong Liu空留Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted Miss Zhu Si’s rough fighting skills have always made her the laughingstock of the capital’s noble families. In everyone else’s eyes, that’s the sort of work meant for household guards. Zhu Changle, who considers herself invincible, isn’t ashamed of it. She’s proud. Not everyone can protect their own home, but she can! And then some! She’d even turn the whole capital upside down to protect it! Don’t believe her? Try her! 20.9kReads9.5Score3.3kShelves
10. 10 惜 Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷 Kong Liu空留Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Hu Yitian and Zhang Jingyi] After keeping her talents hidden for fifteen years, Hua Zhi thought she could spend her life as a proper aristocratic young lady, living in peace. But when the Hua family’s fortunes collapse, she has no choice but to reveal her sharp edge and hold the storm-tossed household together. Being out in public becomes the norm, and so does galloping through the streets. When all else fails, she even carries a coffin on he 20.3kReads9.6Score4.7kShelves
11. 11 轻 Where Does the Light Boat Go? 轻舟何岸 Plain Colors, Chilly素彩寒Ancient Romance271k WordsCompleted Are the four princes of Rui Kingdom really going to marry four common women from Chan Kingdom? Could it be because every woman in Chan Kingdom is beautiful and fertile? She has the talent to be a chancellor in a matriarchal kingdom, yet marries the “intellectually disabled” prince of a patriarchal kingdom, entering the marriage as a spy under the pretense of a political union. He is a prince with exceptional intelligence who hides his true self. But even after he regains his true self, is that r 10Reads—Score—Shelves

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    She is a talented prime minister of a female country, but she is married to a "retarded" prince of a male country, using the name of marriage as a stranger; he is a demented prince with high intelligence but hiding his true identity, but even if he regains his true form, is he really himself? Spy wars, palace intrigues, business intrigues, and battlefield tactics are all slowly unfolding amid the mutual admiration between the two powers...

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