Any Palace Intrigue Novels Where the Heroine Starts as Empress? I Really Want to Read One 😭✘_✘ 有没有开局皇后的宫斗文？？？想看哇😭✘_✘
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Transmigrated as a Fake Eunuch, I Become the Handsome Men's Beloved 穿成万人迷假太监，美男们团宠我
[Unparalleled beauty + irresistible charm + everyone’s darling + a tangled love square] Liu He transmigrated into a book, and not just any book: the one she had written herself. She wasn’t a princess or a legitimate-born young lady. She was a short-lived fake eunuch who dressed as a man. A miserable life? No! Watch this pretty little eunuch become everyone’s obsession! The gentle, refined crown prince: “So what if you’re a eunuch? I’ve already chosen you, Xiao Liu.” The sinister, scheming second
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She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反
[Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and
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My Lord, Are You a Woman? 主公，你是女子？
[Publication rights signed] [Strong heroine + political intrigue + turbulent times + power struggles + ensemble cast] She’s fleeing from the start, a female warlord in a chaotic age. Lin Zhihuang, originally named Lin Zhihuan, transmigrates as a county magistrate’s daughter, only to find tens of thousands of refugees attacking the city from the start! While others transmigrate into palace or household intrigue, she transmigrates straight into a chaotic age and a desperate flight from famine. The
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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
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
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The Prince Won't Hold Back 皇叔不经撩
The short drama adaptation of Yue Xia's novel The Beloved 2: The Beloved Fierce Wife is now streaming on Hongguo, while The Beloved 1: The Unruly Imperial Uncle is currently a hit. In a bonus scene at the end of The Beloved 2, Chen Jinning, the peach-blossom general Song Xixixi, and Luo Jinshu, Chief Director of the Heavenly War Medical Bureau, meet up in a crossover. The Chief Director of the Heavenly War Medical Bureau transmigrates into the orphan Luo Jinshu of the Great Yan Dynasty. As soon
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Now That I’m Reborn, Who’d Raise the Scumbag Husband’s Illegitimate Child? 都重生了，谁还替渣夫外室养孩子
[Film and television rights sold] In her previous life, Yun Chu supported her husband, raised his son by a concubine, and helped the Xie family rise to greatness. In the end, she caused all one hundred members of the Yun family to be beheaded, then was forced to drink poison by the child she had raised with her own hands! As the poison burned through her entrails, she opened her eyes and found herself back at twenty. A line of Xie family children stood before her, each calling her “Mother” with
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I Became a Villainous Eunuch and Won the World Over with My Goofy Antics 穿成反派太监，靠沙雕被天下争抢
[Goofy Little Eunuch × Long-Suffering Emperor] Mutually Exclusive Romance Yue Fuling transmigrates into the body of a little eunuch, but secretly she is an assassin tasked with killing the emperor. The emperor can even possess her, and has learned all her secrets. This book is also known as: Everyone knows she’s an assassin except her. Yue Fuling panics and packs up to flee in the middle of the night. Halfway through, flames blaze behind her as several groups of pursuers race after her. Yue Fuli
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An Imperial Betrothal: The Fearsome Prince Is a Peerless Beauty 赐婚，煞神王爷竟是绝世美男
[Powerful and devoted couple + satisfying takedowns + lighthearted comedy + sweet romance] Yin Yue was born into a family of renowned physicians. A single pill could spark a mad scramble, and her mastery of poisons was enough to strike fear into anyone who heard of it. A major figure in the medical world, she unexpectedly transmigrates after a car accident. In Yunli Kingdom, Yin Yue is the plain and untalented eldest daughter of the prime minister's household. She is betrothed to Xiao Lingya
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Farewell to the Phoenix Coffin: One Palace, Two Kingdoms 凤棺辞：一宫风月，两方山河
The phoenix crown is a splendid ornament for a coffin, and the empress's throne is a foreordained death trap. The position of empress, shunned by every consort in the palace, falls to Wen Xiwan, a low-born concubine. One day she's tending a little vegetable garden in the palace laundry, and the next she's seated upon the phoenix throne. Everyone is certain she's only waiting to be buried in the imperial mausoleum. Pei Yuan, the chief minister who put her on the throne, did so only to find an exp
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The Consort Is All Charm and Cunning, Scheming Her Way to the Top 娘娘又茶又媚，一路宫斗上位
Signed for print publication In the third year of the Yifeng era, a concubine-born daughter of the Ningyang Marquis’s household enters the palace. The palace is a vast, treacherous place, where the one thing you must never do is give your heart away. Ning Shuyan is clear-eyed: she wants wealth and prestige, along with the emperor’s favor. For three years, she carefully plots each step, wins the emperor’s attention, and rises from Talented Lady to Noble Consort. Rumor has it that the emperor only
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Transmigrated as the Empress: I Set Up My Rival and Teased the Emperor Until He Went Crazy 穿成皇后：塞情敌怼帝甜宠到疯
Reborn as a queen who exists only to serve, she’s met with cold indifference from the emperor on her wedding night. So she retaliates by recruiting the concubines into a team and filling the emperor’s harem to the brim! With four maids skilled in extraordinary arts backing her up, she trades barbs with the Consort, turning them into a pair of bickering frenemies, and even joins forces with her to bring down the ambitious imperial uncle. The brooding, swaggering emperor gradually falls for her. P
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The Ice-Cold Minister Turned Gray at Her Grave 冷冰冰的权臣在她坟前白了头
[Not an angst novel + heartwarming + no logic + read it to see if it suits your taste] After transmigrating into a book, Hua Zhao had her memories erased and became a tool whose job was to give the heroine a golden finger. To top it off, she was also the infamous, short-lived first wife of the villainous minister. Luckily, she regained her memories and cut her losses in time. The heroine’s golden finger? Sorry, that’s a family heirloom that came with me when I transmigrated into the book! Her in
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Ride Out to Battle, Peach Blossoms in My Wake 桃花马上请长缨
The short drama adaptation of June's novel, Power and Favor 3: Power and Favor in the Capital, is now available on Hongguo App. She cared for her in-laws and used her dowry to support the General's household, only for him to use his hard-won military achievements to ask for the female general's hand as his equal wife. Zhan Beiwang mocked her. “Song Xixie, do you know that your fine clothes, rich food, and glittering jewels all come from General Yi Fang and me fighting bloody battles to hold back
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Reborn to Be Spoiled: The Regent Prince Is Fierce 重生霸宠：摄政王爷太凶猛
“Princess, something terrible has happened! The Prince Regent has promised the young scholar you took a liking to to the butcher’s daughter in the west of the city!” The princess gritted her teeth. “It’s fine... I still have my male companions!” “Princess, something terrible has happened! The Prince Regent has sold all your male companions to the brothels!” The princess lamented, “It’s all right... I’m getting married soon. I’ll still have a husband!” “Princess, something terrible has happened!!
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The Joy of Remarrying 再醮之喜
Reborn + Sweet Romance + Second Marriage + Rugged Hero Song Jinniang’s husband, Xiao Jingran, caught the eye of the Prince of Jin’s daughter. Song Jinniang, his officially wedded wife, was reduced to the status of a mistress, and even her son became a despised illegitimate child. In the end, mother and son both died. Given another life, Song Jinniang returned to the day before she was supposed to enter the capital. This time, she had no hope left for that heartless beast. She took her son, chang
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Super-Rank Wild Queen: I Conquered the Realm by Looting It Clean 超品狂妃：我靠搬空天下一统江山
The short drama based on this novel, “The Prince Is Trembling as the Mad Consort Draws Near,” is now streaming! A powerful female lead + a feel-good story, full of hilarious, stress-relieving moments that will have you laughing until you honk like a goose. She transmigrates into the body of a tool used by the emperor to humiliate a prince. A rooster at the wedding? All the better: roast chicken is delicious! She has X-ray vision, miraculous medical skills, the support of a pocket dimension, and
18.5kReads9.2Score2.4kShelves
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Changye Wuyue 长烨无月
[A princess sent away for a political marriage × an obsessive crown prince and emperor] [Tragic romance] (The comic adaptation is now available.) A general dies in battle, and a princess is sent far away to marry for peace. The young man who had been her childhood sweetheart remained forever on the battlefield in the desert. As a princess of her nation, she was sent far away to Great Jin for a political marriage. The desert battlefield claimed the young General Zhou, while the bright and spiri
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The Reborn Legitimate Daughter Comes Back to Face-Slap Everyone, and the Fake Heiress Panics 嫡女重生来打脸，假千金慌了
Reborn + Taking Down Scumbags + Revenge + Sweet Romance She was the real heiress, yet the fake heiress, a scheming white lotus, kept her cowed and meek, forcing her to grovel while she endured cold looks and ridicule. She thought marriage would finally set her free. Instead, her husband despised her and her mother-in-law made her life difficult. Her wholehearted love was trampled into the dirt, leaving her with nothing but schemes. Reborn into a new life, she finally breaks free of her shackles.
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Spring Behind Locked Doors 锁棠春
[Palace Intrigue + Pure Historical Romance] Shen Ruotang was Crown Prince Xuan Che’s personal maid. She stayed by his side for twelve years, watching him endure the ruthless struggle for the throne. Step by step, he had risen from a master strategist and Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace to the cold, cruel emperor everyone feared. After Xuan Che ascended the throne, Shen Ruotang became the head palace maid. Everyone in the palace had to address her as Aunt Ruotang. Rumors sometimes circulated i
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A Noble Lady’s Difficult Fate 贵女难当
As a proper noblewoman, Lin Qingwan had studied the Four Books and learned the lessons of womanly virtue from childhood, all so she could marry her cousin, to whom she had been betrothed since they were young, and become the perfect nobleman's wife. She thought they had grown up together and, even if they weren't head over heels in love, they could still share a loving life into old age, treating each other with respect. But her cousin was ambitious and single-minded in his pursuit of power. She
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My Scumbag Fiancé Ran Away from Our Wedding, So I Married Someone Else on the Spot 渣男逃婚，我当场改嫁了
On her wedding day, Meng Jinyao’s intended groom, Gu Xiuming, eloped with another woman, turning her into a laughingstock. She hardened her heart and changed grooms on the spot, marrying Gu Xiuming’s adoptive father, Gu Jingxi. After the wedding, Gu Xiuming sneered at her. “Meng Jinyao, have you no shame? You couldn’t become my bride, so now you want to become my mother?” Meng Jinyao looked at the man standing in the doorway and complained, “Husband, your son is being disrespectful and insulting
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Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷
[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
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