Strong Female Leads, Preferably in a Cultivation Novel 女强女强，最好是修仙文

1. 101 好 Phew, I Survived Another Day in the Cultivation World 好险，又在修仙界多活了一天 Mischievous and Cunning刁钻古怪Ancient Romance602k WordsCompleted [Traditional cultivation + System + genius protagonist + satisfying wish fulfillment + wicked female lead + no main-story romance, though she has a one-sided admirer] Merchants value profit over parting. After successfully eliminating her other illegitimate siblings and inheriting the family business, Ning Zhao pulls an all-nighter and dies of exhaustion. She transmigrates into a female-oriented cultivation novel titled After Proving My Dao by Killing My Husband, I Ascended on the Spot. And she 11.1kReads9.1Score1.1k14d adds
2. 102 成 After Becoming the White Moonlight of the Male Lead in a Xianxia Novel 成为仙侠文男主白月光后 Fuyao Qingyu扶摇清羽Ancient Romance703k WordsOngoing [Female Lead Transmigrates Into a Book + No Forgiveness + No Financially Supporting Romance + No Winning Over the Male Lead or Clinging to Powerful Allies + Slightly Unhinged + No Romance] After transmigrating into a cultivation novel as the male lead's beloved, she goes on a rampage! A cannon-fodder beloved? She holds the Book of Destiny in her hands! She'll defy fate and rewrite her life! At first, Shen Zhiyi thought that with a golden finger, even as a cannon-fodder beloved destined to be rep 1.6kReads9.0Score24314d adds
3. 103 修 Cultivation Is Hard, So I Get Stronger by Annoying People 修仙不容易，我靠给人添堵涨法力 Young Master Ba八公子Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Ning Xiaoru transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder villainess. She thinks that if she stays away from the hero and heroine, she can escape the heroine’s tragic fate. Who could have guessed that the heroine would try to kill her from the very beginning? Determined to live a happy life, Ning Xiaoru prepares to sleep in a cave and drink from streams before heading to the sect’s place of exile. But this is nothing like she imagined. The place of exile is so luxurious it puts th 124Reads7.4Score—14d adds
4. 104 救 Help! I Sold the Male Lead to a Brothel from the Start! 救命！刚开局就把男主卖青楼了！ Snowfall at the Third Watch三更覆雪Ancient Romance1.8M WordsOngoing [Read comments with care to avoid spoilers] [See the author's note in Chapter One] [1v1 romance + plot-driven + equally matched leads + both leads devoted to each other + happy ending] Fu Sheng, the greatest spirit painter in a modern ancient martial arts family, is like a real-life Ma Liang with a magic paintbrush. She never imagined a System would bind itself to her one day and send her into a cultivation novel she'd read, where she becomes Chun Tao, the young male lead's maid during his youth 14.5kReads9.2Score1.8k14d adds
5. 105 为 To Save My Life, I Flirted with Twelve Simps in One Go 为保命，我一口气撩了十二个舔狗 Yunyun Loves Carrots云云爱吃胡萝卜Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Not-So-Serious Cultivation] [Harem Alert] [One Simp, a Thousand Battle Wolves! (Not Really)] After transmigrating into a book, Song Jiuge inherits not only the original protagonist’s abysmal and tragic plotline, but also a golden finger. Ding! Simp System activated! Song Jiuge: I really can’t thank you enough! But wait, let’s take a closer look... What? She can gain cultivation as long as she acts like a simp? Give flowers to the sect’s holy son, cultivation +999. Show concern for the gloomy De 1.4kReads8.4Score21014d adds
6. 106 当 I Arrived in the Cultivation World with My Online Game Interface 当我带着网游游戏面板到了修仙界 Shu Liang殊良Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted How can a powerless little support survive in the world of immortal cultivation? Should I make a fortune selling spirit weapons, talismans, and red and blue potions? Or start a sect, take in disciples, and build a support corps? Or maybe just latch onto a powerful backer and lie flat, becoming their dedicated healer? Waiting for answers online. It's pretty urgent. 27.2kReads9.2Score3.4k14d adds
7. 107 苟 I Can't Keep Laying Low! The Cannon-Fodder Junior Sister Has Caused a Huge Disaster! 苟不住了！炮灰小师妹她翻大车！ Classmate Zhengjia Is Slacking Off Every Day正佳同学每天都在摆烂Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (A silly comedy. The heroine has flaws, and this isn't a story about a powerful female lead. Best read without overthinking. The male lead is undecided and will depend on how the story unfolds.) Jiang Jiu stays up all night gaming, then suddenly dies and transmigrates into the questionable otome game she was playing, as the villainess who is doomed to die on every route. As the cannon-fodder junior apprentice whose Pure Branch Goddess identity is usurped by the heroine, who is betrayed by everyo 1.4kReads8.9Score19314d adds
8. 108 穿 Transmigrate Into a Book About the Hehuan Sect? Whatever, I'm a Catastrophe 穿书合欢宗？无所谓我是泥石流 A Pound of White Tea一斤白茶Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Everyone stays pure, plus bonus chapters for the whole cast] Xu Tiaotiao, an unremarkable little artist, transmigrated into a book, becoming an insignificant cannon-fodder character in an indescribable story set in the Hehuan Sect. Her entire role in the book was already over the moment she opened her eyes. She should have meekly stepped aside for the heroine. But! She still wanted to live! Surviving in this godforsaken place, crowded with playboys and scheming beauties, was a real challenge. L 4.1kReads9.3Score63914d adds
9. 109 换 They Forced Me into a Marriage That Would Kill Me, but I'll Claim the First Wife's Seat 换亲让我死，我偏稳坐主母位 Jin Wanwan金万万Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Adapted into a short drama: The Matriarch Just Wants to Slacken Off, but Goes on a Rampage in the Marquis’s Household After Being Reborn Jiang Shuwan and her legitimate younger sister, Jiang Yao, are both reborn. In their previous lives, both she and Jiang Yao were transmigrators. A workaholic who earned more money than she could spend, Shuwan worked herself to death. In this life, she’s determined to slack off. Jiang Yao is ambitious. She makes a name for herself by plagiarizing poems while sec 970Reads8.2Score10114d adds
10. 110 天 The Heavenly Court Career Advancement Handbook 天庭职场晋升手册 Just Yiran就是依然Ancient Romance148k WordsOngoing [Strong heroine + not a wish-fulfillment story + heroine’s growth + female-centered agency] Heaven is like the workplace, and the workplace is like a battlefield. She’ll probably have to fight alone. Ti Yan has been working at the Tianquan Palace for hundreds of years, coasting along. She has one dream: to become Heaven’s greatest female warrior. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned. The only department willing to take her is the Ministry of Letters. Oh well, writing isn’t so bad! Then one 5Reads—Score—14d adds

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    The storyline revolves around the female lead, while the male lead is mainly there for the romantic subplot; he's essentially a plot device. The female lead fights her way to become the strongest in the universe. Keep an eye out for her.

11. 111 我 My Wife Looks Like a Villain When She Hunts Ghosts 我老婆捉鬼时宛若一个反派 Ha Youli哈鱿狸Modern Romance612k WordsCompleted Everyone knew Lin Qing liked Pei Shiyu like crazy and had pursued him for three years. Everyone except Lin Qing herself. Everyone knew Pei Shiyu didn’t like Lin Qing, and that he’d married her only because his first love had married someone else. Everyone except Pei Shiyu himself. No one had faith in Lin Qing, and no one had faith in their marriage. Lin Qing didn’t care in the least. After they married, she ate when she was hungry and drank when she was thirsty. But gradually, she realized some 795Reads9.0Score10114d adds

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    1. [Got it] But he didn't expect the shock this woman would bring him after marriage to be so great! There are ghosts in this world [What] Exorcising ghosts by slapping [What] Making up spells because you can't remember them [What] Teaching ghosts to scare people [What] She... Doesn't love me [Shocked] To this, he said: It's okay if she doesn't love me, I can change slowly, marriage first and love later is not impossible! 2. [Game types include survival, horror, rule-based ghost stories...] The male protagonist is an NPC, the male protagonist just wants to create and kill everyone equally, including the female protagonist. 3. [Got it] Cute pet transformation + hilarious + group favorite + non-mainstream eccentric Xianxia, a bit funny, modern cultivation 4. [Got it] This book is also known as "After I became famous in the cultivation world with the male protagonist's name" and "Good news I became famous all over the world, bad news I made him famous with the male protagonist's name".

12. 112 被 After a Mad NPC Set Its Sights on Me, I Took Control 被疯批NPC盯上后，我直接拿捏 Cactus Heart仙人掌心Mystery813k WordsCompleted [Female lead grows over time] [Male lead is thoroughly rotten] [One-and-only relationships] [Games include survival, horror, and rule-based mysteries…] A strange bus travels through time and space, crossing into another dimension… Jiang Song never imagined that her life as an overworked office drone would end on the day she finally clocked out. To survive the terrifying games, she must complete every mission without making a single mistake. The games are already perilous, but then an NPC s 35.5kReads9.3Score4.6k14d adds
13. 113 全 Livestreaming to the World: I Revealed My True Form in the Movie Emperor's Arms 全球直播：我在影帝怀里现原形 Jiang Juhua江菊花Modern Romance2.2M WordsCompleted [Adorable pet transformation + laugh-out-loud comedy + everyone’s favorite + unconventional, offbeat xianxia] Yu Baibai fails her tribulation and gets struck by heavenly lightning, turning into a Chinese alligator. She freeloads as a pet in the home of an aloof movie star, mooching meals, treats, and Wangwang Snow Cookies. The movie star hugs her in her alligator form and says with eager hope, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could turn into a beauty like Yu Baibai!” One day, Yu Baibai can’t 5.3kReads8.9Score1.1k14d adds
14. 114 S SOS! The Underworld’s Top-Tier Star Takes the Stage with a Blade SOS！黑道顶流她提刀登场 Food and Desire食色Modern Romance995k WordsOngoing (An alternate-world power fantasy + face-slapping and putting scumbags in their place + married from the start + doting on and acting for each other + everyone has a secret identity) She was a top assassin who struck terror into the T-Nation Imperial Army. After dying in a sea of flames, she unexpectedly transmigrated thirty-one years into the past and became the obscure, overlooked eldest daughter of the Mu family. Think she's an easy target? She kicked down the door to her awful sister's birth 69Reads8.9Score—14d adds
15. 115 坟 She Gets Rich from Her Ancestors’ Graves Being Relocated, and the Zombies Lose Their Old Haunts 坟头拆迁暴富，僵尸丢她老墓 Food and Desire食色Modern Romance251k WordsCompleted [Male lead: irresistible bait for humans + female lead: a slightly unhinged zombie queen + pure sweetness, no angst, and absurd humor] A bioterror crisis resurrects Banban, dead for two thousand years, from her tomb, turning her into a ridiculously powerful zombie. Just as she's about to join the zombie horde and slaughter humanity, she discovers that she's a vegetarian. Seriously... a vegetarian. Damn it! As an outcast, Banban tears up the script overnight. She's done with this. She's going bac 1.4kReads9.1Score20314d adds
16. 116 我 Teaching and Guiding People in the Demon Cult 我在魔教教书育人 Thousand Threads of Intrigue千丝戏Ancient Romance335k WordsCompleted Gu Zening wakes up to find herself a demonic woman of the Devil Cult. In a world where anyone can draw a sword at the slightest provocation, she can only rely on the skills she picked up playing battle royale games and strive to become the king of all cowards. A cowardly wolf? She casually rescues a stunning beauty, thinking she's a harmless little rabbit, only to discover that when no one's watching, she controls Gu to kill people: a true yandere, a black-hearted lotus. When the beauty pins Gu 1.9kReads9.3Score27814d adds
17. 117 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
18. 118 替 The Substitute Bride: The Mad Demon Emperor Is Provoked 替嫁狂妃：误惹病娇魔帝 Cinderella Wants to Become an Immortal灰姑娘要成仙Ancient Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [The short drama adaptation, Farewell to the Immortal Bone, is now streaming] She was poisoned by villains, left mentally impaired, and had her dantian shattered and her contract beast stolen. Then she was forced to take another woman's place in marriage to an old demon. When her memories return, she transforms into a little grandmaster who can conquer the heavens and earth in a flash. The Spirit Palaces of the Heavenly Realm revere her, the rulers of the Underworld fear her as a demon, and the 5.5kReads9.4Score76314d adds
19. 119 男 Men, You’re Getting in the Way of My Sword 男人，影响我拔剑的速度 Shi Xiao Xixi Ya是萧玺熙吖Ancient Romance61k WordsOngoing The chapters got out of order, and I can't fix them, so there won't be any more updates. I'm so sorry. An old practice piece about the love and hatred between the male and female leads, it ends here because the chapters got scrambled beyond repair. 1Reads—Score—14d adds

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20. 120 都 Make Way, the Little Emperor of the Tingyun Sect Has Arrived 都往后稍稍，听云宗小皇帝驾到 Make It a Large Fries要大份薯条Ancient Romance449k WordsOngoing [Transmigrate into a book + a touch of ensemble cast + no romance] [Mostly lighthearted daily life, no angst in the whole story (teehee)] Li Chuxue was an orphan. In her previous life, she worked herself to the bone until she suddenly died at the office. By chance, the System grabbed her and made her transmigrate into a book, threatening that if she refused to cooperate, she could go back to being a pile of ashes. Li Chuxue thought that actually sounded pretty good, but the System wasn't having 6Reads7.1Score—14d adds

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    This book is really good! It's just that the rating is... But it's so good!!! Highly recommend it! 💕

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