Looking for Qing Dynasty Palace-Intrigue Stories. Not the Kind with Titles Like Talented Lady or Beauty; Those Are Hard to Follow 求清朝的宫斗书，不要什么才人美人那种的看不懂
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The Beloved Little Princess Shocks the Court with Her Secret Identity 团宠小公主马甲震惊朝野
Warning: This is an imaginative novel, so don’t compare it with history or try to connect it to real events! If that bothers you, please move along!!!!! [Cute baby + No romance for the heroine + Coming-of-age story. Not an adult soul transmigrating into a child! She’ll grow stronger later and return to the celestial realm.] A little qilin baby who hasn’t yet developed her intelligence falls from heaven to the mortal world while playing. As it turns out, this is a tribulation written in her fate:
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The Entire Court Eavesdrops on the Saintess’s Inner Thoughts 满朝文武都偷听圣女心声
Chu Siqing is born into a novel as a cannon-fodder character. Though she was supposed to die young, she unexpectedly gets bound to a gossip System, and from then on lies flat all the way to success. [Mother Consort, you’re so clueless! Auntie didn’t come to the manor to visit you. She clearly wants to become my stepmother!] Princess Consort Yu’s brows shoot up, and she immediately becomes wary of her second younger sister. [Father clearly only loves Mother Consort, but Princess Yongfu insists on
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The Entire Court Heard My Thoughts and Got Insulted into Silence 满朝文武听我心声后，被我骂傻了
[Everyone can read minds + transmigration to the past + Search System + pocket dimension supplies + beloved by all + fun and cheerful + face-slapping] Yun Wu became the eighteenth princess, a little baby girl, in the historical parallel-world Great Yan dynasty, ruled by a tyrant destined to bring the nation to ruin. She was still at the age when all she did was drink milk. Even while nursing, she never forgot to complain and use her Search System to dig up the latest gossip. Ha! The tyrant emper
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When the Sweet Young Mistress Arrives, the Chaste Prince Loses Control 娇滴滴外室一来，禁欲王爷失控了
[Mutual devotion, sweet romance] Su Jiaojiao transmigrates with no grand ambitions. She only wants to make money, enjoy life, and be free. But her stunning looks catch the eye of Song Chi, the Prince of Jiangnan. He falls for her at first sight, and has only one thought when he sees her: I want her! “You're a merchant's daughter. It's your honor to be my concubine.” “I want to be your girlfriend.” “Your girlfriend? What's that?” “We can kiss, cuddle, and sleep together. No titles, no strings att
38.7kReads9.0Score5.7kShelves
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The Tyrant's Family Heard My Thoughts, Got Roasted, and Wrecked the Plot 暴君全家读我心声被骂后狂崩剧情
A story about a baby who transmigrates, can hear people's thoughts, and saves the whole family. A story about a baby who transmigrates, can hear people's thoughts, and saves the whole family. A story about a baby who transmigrates, can hear people's thoughts, and saves the whole family.
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Wait, What Kind of Royal Guard Would Dare Bully the Emperor? 不是，谁家暗卫敢欺皇上呀？
[Two male leads + exclusive 1v1 romance + emperor and bodyguard + emperor switches from top to bottom, bodyguard switches from bottom to top + System + transmigration + sweet romance + light physical angst, no emotional angst! Both leads are powerful!] Two male leads, an emperor and his bodyguard, transmigration, a System, and missions. The emperor switches from top to bottom, while the bodyguard switches from bottom to top. One side couple has a crybaby top and a burly bottom, while another sid
26.6kReads9.5Score3.8kShelves
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The Adored Little Princess: The Imperial Uncle Wants a Hug 团宠小公主：皇叔要抱抱
[Comic now available] Xuanyue Yue never imagined she would wake up in the body of a newborn baby. Because she was a girl, her cold-hearted emperor father doted on her without restraint. Her three older brothers were not favored, and though they had resented their little sister at first, they soon adored her and made her the family’s darling. She had a cheat-level master, an uncle who was like an immortal... Even the villainous uncle was warmed into a doting, worried old dad by Yueyue... “Master,
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The Imperial Harem: The Story of Consort Qin 后宫：勤妃传
Chen Wenxin is lazy and loves good food. After transmigrating into the Qing dynasty as a low-ranking palace maid, all she wants is to live a quiet, comfortable life doing nothing. But after one night serving the emperor, she discovers she is exactly his type! He even uncovers her secret laziness and gives her the title of Consort Qin! QAQ I feel like the emperor just hit me with a massive dose of sarcasm. I’m falling apart inside... Am I really going to have to embark on a life of bearing and ra
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Reborn as a Low-Ranking Palace Consort, I Rise All the Way to the Top 穿成低位宫妃，一路扶摇上位
[Transmigration, Palace Intrigue, Political Scheming, Not Both Pure, Absurd Comedy, Devoted Love Later On] Shen Jinruo transmigrated into the body of a low-ranking concubine who had no favor from the emperor. Having lost her freedom, she’d planned to keep her head down and quietly build up her strength. But she soon discovered that in this harem, even if you don’t go looking for trouble, trouble will find you. To survive, Shen Jinruo worked hard to adapt and officially joined the harem’s struggl
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Palace Intrigue: The Story of Qing Zhi 深宫策·青栀传
Her eyes can see through sinister tricks and schemes, but she cannot fully see the changes in people's hearts. His hands hold the fate of all under heaven, yet all he wants is to hold on to the few who truly care for him. How far is it from being the daughter of a powerful official distrusted by the emperor to becoming a virtuous empress remembered throughout history? Once she enters the imperial palace, her past ties are severed. Half a lifetime of ups and downs conceals the green of the garden
2.5kReads9.2Score335Shelves
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The Hundred Officials Go Crazy After the First Emperor Hears Their Thoughts! 被始皇读心后，文武百官卷疯了！
[Mind Reading + Developing the Qin Empire + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Infrastructure Building + No Romance + Everyone’s Favorite + A Cast of Smart Characters] The genius PhD Gu Lingxue woke up one day and transmigrated to the Qin dynasty! With a wave of her little hand, she decided to become an official! If she became an indispensable favorite of Qin Shi Huang, wouldn’t she be able to make the rules? Just as she was drawing up all kinds of development plans, she never expected Ying Zheng to hear
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Mom, Open the Door! I Studied for Three Years and Passed the Exam to Become Emperor 娘亲开门！我读三年，考上皇帝了
The print edition of The Marquis’s Elite Class is now available [adorable children + parenting + doting in-laws + lighthearted + healing] Xu Wan becomes a widow the moment she marries into the family. All she wants is to keep her head down and enjoy the freedom of being a marquis’s wife. But on the very day she arrives, her stepson, a notorious little menace throughout the capital, gives her two nasty surprises in a row. Xu Wan grabs a knife and charges out, making a name for herself across the
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After Overhearing the Mad Little Emperor's Thoughts, the Courtiers Went Berserk 偷听疯批小皇帝心声后群臣杀疯了
[Court Officials Can Hear Her Thoughts + Dual Powers + No Romance] Lu Qing, a powerful wielder of two abilities in the apocalypse, transmigrated into a book. She became the deranged young emperor who loses her kingdom in a novel. The young emperor was cowardly and useless, gloomy and cruel, and even a woman disguised as a man! At court, ministers held the reins of power; beyond the borders, neighboring kingdoms watched like hungry wolves. Disasters struck one after another, and the people were l
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I Use Modern Supplies to Feed the Entire Ancient World 我用现代物资，养活整个古代
This book was originally titled From Crown Prince to Ruin: Squandering the Disaster Relief Funds from the Start No heroine + tricking people, especially his younger royal brothers, into working for him That year, the Great Qian Dynasty was struck by a massive flood, the worst in a hundred years. He Xingchen unexpectedly transmigrates into the crown prince and is “called upon in a time of crisis.” He is ordered to use a mere 80,000 taels of disaster relief funds to rescue 600,000 victims. Since
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I’m Just a Foolish Emperor. What Bad Intentions Could I Have? 我就一昏君，能有什么坏心思？
[Tyrant + Political Scheming + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Misinterpretations + Farming] Luo Lin opens his eyes and finds himself the new ruler of the Qian Kingdom, bound to a Tyrant System. If he ruins the kingdom’s fortunes, he can live forever? Being a wise ruler might be difficult, but being a tyrant should be easy. Just do whatever you want with your eyes closed! Then he looks around: a bewitchingly beautiful empress, a fiercely loyal minister, and a powerful eunuch. So Luo Lin starts causing
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The AI Empress's Poise AI皇后的品格
[AI Empress] [Ridiculous palace intrigue] [All about raising kids] “Empress Ai.” “I... am... here...” The woman's voice is stiff, each word spoken separately. An AI from the year 3026, seeking to prevent humanity from dying out, travels through a parallel timeline to... The year 1132, when human reproduction is at its peak, during the Great Ming Dynasty, known as the “Golden Age of the Great Ming.” She becomes Empress Ai of the Great Ming. The little AI's mission is simple: get people to have ch
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I Risked Everything to Help the First Emperor, and Finally Got a Wife 我玩命辅佐祖龙，终于取到老婆
Zhang He transmigrates to the Great Qin dynasty and gains the strongest support System. As long as he helps Ying Zheng, he gets a ten-draw summon. So Zhang He sets out on diplomatic missions to the six kingdoms. He roars through their courts, berates the King of Han, points his sword at the King of Zhao, sweet-talks the King of Chu, sows discord with the King of Qi, schemes against the King of Yan, and outmaneuvers the King of Wei. With Zhang He's help, Great Qin's iron cavalry crushes the six k
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Zhu Biao, Son of Taizong: The Great Ming Empire Where the Sun Never Sets 太宗朱标，大明日不落
Zhu Biao was a die-hard Ming dynasty fan. One day, while arguing with an online user, he accidentally transmigrated to the Ming dynasty. Since he was the crown prince, he would act like one. Zhu Biao: Zhu Yuanzhang is cold and ungrateful, slaughtering meritorious officials and implicating hundreds of thousands of people. He’s no different from a butcher. Zhu Biao: Zhu Yuanzhang is stubborn and suspicious. He has military prowess, but lacks the skills to govern. Enfeoffing his sons will bring the
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Three Kingdoms: Great Han, I Beg the Heavens to Let Me Die for the People! 三国：请苍天大汉，为民赴死！
[Xianxia] [Three Kingdoms] [Cultivation] [Xuanhuan] [Spiritual Qi Revival] In the early stages, he serves as the Eastern Han’s Imperial Preceptor. Later, he leads a rebellion. At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, the heroes of the Three Kingdoms rise up. Zhang Jue, a transmigrator, arrives in this world with the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts. He could have enjoyed a life of wealth and honor, cultivating the true Dao for a thousand years. But he discovers that this is not the Han dynasty he ha
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Blessed with Endless Luck, the Beloved Little Imperial Aunt 福运绵绵，团宠小皇姑
The little toddler, Mianmian, was rejected by her own parents and sent back to Great Qin. Though she was tiny, her rank in the family was extraordinarily high: the princes had to call her Great-Aunt, and even the emperor respectfully addressed her as Little Imperial Aunt. She was the Taishang Emperor’s sister. Who in the whole capital would dare offend this formidable aunt? They must be tired of living. The three-and-a-half-year-old was small but gifted, skilled at catching ghosts, fortune-tell
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I Transmigrated to the Great Qin Dynasty with Barbara's Skills 我带着芭芭拉的技能穿越大秦了
[No romance + parallel-world Great Qin + some history, but not much + a six-constellation healer with Barbara's skill set + transmigration + everyone's favorite + invincible + brainless fun + two-faced drama queen] I, Bai Qingyan, transmigrated to Great Qin with Barbara's skills from Genshin Impact. You guys, can you believe it? My Brother Zheng has to unite the whole little planet, and while he's at it, wipe out those countries that have it pretty good. Other than dying of old age, the First Em
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After Switching Bodies with the Tyrant, She Executes Her Own Nine Clans from the Start 与暴君互换后，她开局诛自己九族
[Soul swap + transmigrate into a book + sweet, funny romance + going off the rails + tyrant + wish fulfillment + both leads are each other's first and only] Yun Yaoyao transmigrated into a book, becoming a foolish, timid cannon-fodder character who doesn't even survive the first chapter. No problem. If my family plots against me, I'll assassinate the emperor and wipe out my own clan! But after killing the emperor, Yun Yaoyao was horrified to discover that she and the tyrant had swapped bodies! T
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Shocking! Reborn Zhao Gou Is a Hawk! 震惊！重生后的赵构竟是主战派！
Zhao Gou never imagined that after spending over seven hundred years as a bureaucrat in the underworld, he could be reborn, let alone into a romance novel set in the Song dynasty. And the male lead is actually Wanyan Tuhesu? What kind of nobody gets to be the male lead? Even worse, the heroine is his own wife, Empress Xing, the woman for whom he left the throne vacant for sixteen years! Zhao Gou touched his hair and said, “I want to dye this thing green.” In this life, he will not let the Jin pe
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In the Ming Dynasty, I Married the Old Zhu from the Start 人在大明，开局嫁老朱
Ma Xiuying thinks she’s landed the farming heroine’s story. She spends ten years farming in the countryside, working diligently to improve agricultural productivity. She develops new fruit-tree grafting techniques, raises silkworms, and invents a loom. Thanks to her cutting-edge farming skills, Ma Xiuying becomes the most popular young woman in the surrounding villages, with countless country lads lining up for miles to marry her. Then one day, her father in the city dies for his principles, and
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Great Ming: I Transmigrated into the Founder's Portrait 大明：我穿越成了太祖画像
(History + Ming Dynasty + System + transmigration) After showing off on a whim, Li Chen transmigrated to the end of the Ming Dynasty. He became a portrait of the Great Ancestor, Zhu Yuanzhang, and was bound to the fate of the Great Ming! It was the first year of the Chongzhen reign, and Zhu Youjian had only recently ascended the throne. To stay alive, and to make up for the regrets of the Ming Dynasty’s final years, Li Chen decided to do everything he could to extend the Great Ming for another t
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The Yandere Male Lead Replaced His Twin Brother to Claim Me on Our Wedding Night 病娇男主顶替双生弟弟夺我入洞房
[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
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Great Ming: I’m a Rebel Through and Through, Yet You Praise Me as a Sage Grandson 大明：我一身反骨，你夸我好圣孙
He transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty and became the illegitimate son of Prince of Yan Zhu Di! Zhu Gaoyu built an underground fortress, developed gunpowder, and gathered talented people, preparing for the day he would rise up! A true man does not plan for a moment, but for a lifetime. Especially when his father is such a disappointment! Just then, Crown Prince Zhu Biao died, and the various regional princes answered the call to come to the capital and mourn him. Prince of Yan Zhu Di couldn’t resi
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Great Qin: The Ruthless Chancellor, Whom the First Emperor Begs Not to Kill 大秦：最狠丞相，始皇求我别杀了
[Decisive and Ruthless + The Protagonist Is a Master Schemer + No Romance + Career-Focused Protagonist] After transmigrating into the Great Qin dynasty, Liu Bai rose straight to the position of Great Qin's Left Chancellor. From the start, he had seven thousand surrendered rebels buried alive. When he returned to Xianyang, everyone was sharpening their knives, ready to impeach the chancellor. Only then did they realize it was all just the beginning. “Your Majesty, Left Chancellor Liu Bai beat Zha
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Something's Off About My Old Man 我的老爹不对劲
[Ensemble cast + imperial examinations + daily life + farming + court politics later on] Father and son join forces to build a Ming dynasty on which the sun never sets. Yan Xun transmigrates to the Ming dynasty and discovers that his father can do everything except study. His dad has so many secret identities, like an onion with layer after layer to peel back. Huh! If I push Dad hard enough to make him Grand Secretary, can I become a Junior Grand Secretary? The filial son Yan Xun sells everythin
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To Keep My Clan from Execution, I Have No Choice but to Offer Myself 为了不被诛九族，我只能主动送
Alternate-history Ming Dynasty / Fighting for the People / The Art of Toppling Dragons / Loyal Ministers Who Risk Their Lives to Remonstrate / Rules Horror Lately, the atmosphere at court in the Fengtian Hall has grown rather grim. For several days in a row, officials from one particular residence have been risking their lives to remonstrate, and they really do die on the spot. “I stake my life on this remonstrance!” Here we go again. But Emperor Zhu Chongba has changed his approach, too. “Do yo
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Jiang Wanting Transmigrates to Ancient Times 穿越古代的江婉婷
Jiang Wanting’s soul transmigrates, beginning a colorful life for her in ancient times. Those who hurt her, she’ll make them suffer... Those who love her, she’ll protect... Life just keeps getting better. Hey, hey, hey, that prince over there...
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