Ladies, Any Palace-Intrigue Stories Like This That Require You to Think? 姐妹们，有没有类似的宫斗问，要带脑子才能看懂的
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Reborn as the Empress Dowager, I Just Want to Take It Easy 穿成太后只想咸鱼
“Pay attention: this is a story with a strong female lead, no male lead, and no romance.” After transmigrating, she became the most exalted woman in Yun Zhao. She thought she could live a carefree life of wealth and luxury, but danger closed in from every side, with pitfalls everywhere. It was not just her reputation at stake, but her life. The emperor dreams of ruling in his own right? Here, take the imperial seal. Go play by yourself, kid! The consorts are fighting for power in the palace? Tos
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The Empress Doesn't Want Palace Intrigue, but the Emperor Keeps Stirring Things Up 娘娘不想宫斗，奈何皇上带节奏
[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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The Emperor Has No Heart, Yet His Cool and Elegant Noble Consort Has Her Ways 帝本无心，怎奈清冷贵妃手段高
[Cool, seductive fox beauty vs. a carefree, womanizing emperor] [The heroine is the true daughter, driven by revenge and ambition: a scheming beauty, sweet on the outside but ruthless within, and far from virtuous. This is an unconventional palace-intrigue story focused on winning hearts. The hero is not chaste. Later, he desperately tries to win her back. The overall tone is sweet, and the romance becomes one-on-one in the latter half.] Until the age of five, Changyu Jiao was the legitimate da
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Reborn, I Promise You a Lifetime of Joy 重生，许你一世倾欢
(Both leads reborn + scheming prince + palace and household intrigue + punishing scumbags + physician heroine) In her previous life, Ye Ruan was hopelessly devoted to Prince Xuan, Jun Li. But at the Mid-Autumn banquet, the drunken Prince Jing, Jun Zhan, took her innocence. To avenge herself, she pretended to marry into Prince Jing’s household. While he was away on campaign, she forged the late emperor’s edict and elevated the scumbag to the highest position. But once everything had settled, the
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We Switched Marriages, and I Married the Spoiled Young Lord 换亲后，我嫁纨绔小公爷
Yun Jiao, Yun Qing's younger half-sister, was reborn. The first thing she did was frame Yun Qing and steal her marriage match. In her previous life, Yun Qing married Xie Qi, the disabled son of a Minister's household, and lived a smooth and happy life, which made Yun Jiao extremely envious. Yun Jiao, meanwhile, married Qin Xiu, the young heir of a Duke's household. She thought he was handsome, well-born, and better than Xie Qi in every way. But she never imagined that Qin Xiu would be such a sco
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Transmigrating to the Tang Dynasty: Consort Xiao's Daily Guide to Staying Alive 穿越大唐之萧淑妃保命日常
[Transmigration + Palace Intrigue + Medicine + A Soft-Spoken but No Push-over Heroine + A Sickly, Scheming Hero] Oh no! It's Xiao Shufei, the concubine Wu Zetian had turned into a human swine! Newly transmigrated Xiao Xiao is frozen on the spot: As a transmigrator with no System, no pocket dimension, and no golden finger, she not only has to overturn her gruesome fate, but also take on an empress who ruled an era!? When she learns the truth, tears stream down her face: Is it too late to kill mys
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Your Highness, Eighteenth Prince, They Discovered You’re a Woman in Disguise 十八皇子，你女扮男装被发现了
After the death of the Mo Ge’s greatest assassin, she becomes the eighteenth prince of the Mo Bei Dynasty, disguised as a man. Overnight, the King of Mo Bei executes sixteen of his sons. Only the seventeenth prince, Mo Chen, and the eighteenth prince, Mo Bai, are left. Mo Chen ascends the throne but has no interest in governing. Mo Bai just wants to eat, drink, and wait for death. To stay alive, Mo Bai has no choice but to obey the King of Mo Bei, and her days at his side are one disaster after
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- 108 The Tyrant's Medicine: His Boundlessly Spoiled Consort 宠妃无度：暴君的药引 After more than a decade of fighting through a hail of bullets, Lou Qi decided to hang up her weapons and leave the underworld for good. But one day, on a whim, she took a plane out to cross the mysterious Black Triangle. She was swept into a deep-sea whirlpool and then… landed in a man's arms. She was sick of all the bloodshed. Now she wanted to play the frail little flower, but he tore away her disguise piece by piece, forcing her to show her tough, tomboyish nature. Lou Qi said, “Your Majesty 12.9kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves
- 109 The Concubine’s Code of Conduct 妾室职业守则 Ke Rong is a dedicated, third-rate actress who transmigrates and becomes a concubine in a prince’s household. The handsome, dashing prince provides her with food and lodging, occasionally shares her bed, and even pays her a monthly salary for doing nothing. She cannot quit this job and leave, and it would be hard to find another one if she did... Ke Rong decides that she must do her job as a “concubine” conscientiously and diligently, lest she get fired and lose the chance to live a leisurely, 712Reads8.3Score105Shelves
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The Stunning, Fiesty Favorite Consort: The Tyrant Is Addicted to Spoiling Her 绝美宠妃太刁蛮，暴君自虐宠上瘾
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- 111 The Mistress's Daily Life 主母日常 [An Aristocratic Lady Tears Apart a Transmigrator + Reborn + An Idyllic, Leisurely Life as the Mistress of an Ancient Estate] Lu Lingjun and her legitimate younger sister, Lu Hanyi, were both reborn. In their previous lives, Lu Lingjun married the second son of a sixth-rank civil official, while her younger sister married the heir to a marquis’s estate. Everyone said her sister had made the better match. But who could have guessed that Lu Lingjun’s husband would become the prime minister and sec 23.3kReads9.0Score3.2kShelves
- 112 Top-Rank Poison Consort: Reborn and Married to the Ailing Prince 一品毒妃：重生后嫁给病秧子王爷 [Fantasy historical romance + palace and household intrigue + rebirth and transmigration + angst before sweetness] Yang Susu is the third daughter born to a concubine in the General’s mansion. Rumor has it that her beauty could topple kingdoms, and that one smile over her shoulder could leave thousands lovestruck. Yet beauty is short-lived: she died at fifteen! Before her death, she suffered from a strange illness. Her face was disfigured, her limbs withered, and blood flowed from all seven ori 17.9kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves
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Reborn in Empresses in the Palace: Returning in Splendor 重生甄嬛传之锦容归
Transmigrate into a book, supporting female lead's comeback Book-version plot + book-version appearance + drama-version memories + the soul of a modern overworked wage slave Everyone gets trashed, and of course Rong also has her flaws. The heroine makes careful plans at every step to defy fate and change her life. This is a story about a reborn comeback. Don't read if that's not your thing. Not much of a golden finger, just sheer hard work. She uses every means at her disposal, rising from a Sel
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- 114 A Poor Scholar of Noble Character 一品寒士 [Single heroine, semi-fictionalized Tang Dynasty] In an era when the great aristocratic clans looked down on the imperial family, Zhao Quan was born to a farming family and entered school carrying the hopes of his parents and six older brothers. Farming was out of the question: even the village head’s family had no food to spare… So he had no choice but to take the imperial exams and become an official. 10.4kReads9.3Score917Shelves
- 115 Pampered by Marriage 宠嫁 The lofty Prince Regent says, “My princess consort is from the countryside and hasn’t seen much of the world. Don’t bully her!” The refined ladies whose thunder the princess consort has stolen tremble with rage. “We did bully her, so why are we the ones who ended up humiliated?” The handsome, elegant Prince Regent says again, “My princess consort can’t count. She doesn’t even know what an abacus is. How could she possibly make money?” The merchants whose assets the princess consort has acquired 757Reads8.8Score117Shelves
- 116 Cherished by the Brooding Prince After Becoming His Wife 嫁给病娇王爷后她被宠上心尖 It turned out that the husband she had mistakenly married was not the cold-blooded monster she had imagined. He truly cherished her beyond measure. It turned out that the younger sister she'd doted on for over a decade wasn't her real sister, but the daughter of her enemy. It turned out... that the scum had used her to get the legendary Phoenix bloodline in her veins, said to transform anyone who possessed it! Reborn in flames, she returns through a trail of blood. Yan Nanke opens her eyes, prot 25Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 117 After Marrying the Gloomy Powerful Minister's Younger Brother 嫁给阴郁权臣弟弟后 [The print edition is now available under the title Why Not Ride the Wind Together] Xu Yunjia and Pei Youqing grew up together. After they married, she managed the household and cared for his parents, doing everything a wife could be expected to do. She never imagined that one day a woman would arrive at her door with Pei Youqing’s child. Only then did Yunjia realize that she had been living a joke all these years. She returned to the time before she married Pei Youqing. Xu Yunjia no longer want 12.8kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
- 118 Riches and Splendor 富贵芳华 When it came to Ning Fang’s idol, there was only one: Xia Zhenzhen, the Xia family’s legendary great-aunt, whose glory peaked more than a century ago! Renowned for her “exceptional intelligence,” she was chosen at just fifteen by a family of scholars and married into a prestigious household as the legitimate wife, despite being a merchant’s daughter. After the wedding, she and her husband were “deeply devoted to each other,” and even her mother-in-law praised her: “She is as good as my own daugh 4.8kReads9.3Score545Shelves
- 119 The Concubine’s Daughter’s Peerless Charm, The Crown Prince’s Boundless Devotion 庶女媚色无双，太子宠妻无度 Xue Ningmeng was a lowly concubine-born daughter in a powerful family. Her birth mother fell victim to the bitter feud between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and Xue Ningmeng herself was drugged. By the time she was ten, she still couldn’t speak properly, so her clan looked down on her and branded her ill-omened. To keep her from hindering the growth of the family’s only heir, Xue Ningmeng was sent to an estate. There, she unexpectedly met the Crown Prince, who had come to the imperial estat 17Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 120 Favoring the Concubine and Ruining the Wife? The Reborn Matriarch Takes the Whole Household by Storm 宠妾灭妻？重生主母暴虐全府 (Historical romance, household intrigue, reborn heroine takes revenge and serves up face-slapping, satisfying, sweet romance, prince pursues his wife) In her previous life, her husband lied and claimed he couldn't consummate their marriage because he had been injured saving her. Qing Ruyue willingly lived as a wife in name only, put aside her spoiled, unruly nature to become a virtuous wife, devoted herself to raising their adopted son, and used her family's influence and wealth to support the e 87Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 121 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times With a Solar-Powered Phone 我带着太阳能手机穿越古代 Bai Xiaobai, a rich beauty who has never lifted a finger around the house, transmigrates into the body of a silly, sweet Bai Xiaobai with the same name. Her solar-powered phone comes along too. Is this the legendary golden finger? She opens it to find only Baidu, with none of her other apps. Does it have no signal? She takes a closer look and finds unlimited solar-powered Wi-Fi. She happens to save a handsome amnesiac and makes him her servant. From then on, she takes down scumbags, tears into f 29Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 122 CEO, Your Wife Wants a Divorce 总裁，夫人说要离婚 They married for mutual benefit, signing a contract. Then, after a misunderstanding, the heroine ran away while pregnant. The domineering CEO: “Honey, you can do whatever you want. Just don't hurt the baby.” The stubborn young woman: “Do you think I want to hurt the baby? We can't have a baby.” 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Empress Dowager Is a Little Annoyed 太后有点烦
[The Empress Dowager rules + daily power struggles + two strong leads, neither chaste + the nation and its people] What is it like to transmigrate into a book and wake up as the empress? Liu Jin’er has only one answer: absolutely awful. No matter how much she relies on years of reading novels to stir things up in the imperial harem, she can’t break free of that tiny world. And her true enemy isn’t here, but far away on a desolate stretch of farmland: her half-sister, whom she bullied as a child
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The Lucky Little Princess 福气小王妃
Jiang Muxue: “It's strange. How did I get noticed by the Prince Yu's household after just one trip to a temple?” Before they met, Li Jingheng: “This is ridiculous. I've somehow been engaged without even knowing how it happened.” After they met, Li Jingheng: “This engagement isn't so bad after all.” After they married, Li Jingheng: “Imperial Uncle, I don't want to take any concubines.” Jiang Muxue's ideal life was to have a little money and grow trees and flowers. But she unexpectedly became eng
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- 125 The Villainess Is Reborn: The Supporting Female Lead Refuses to Play Along 反派重生 : 女配她不干了 Yin Susu opened her eyes and, wow, she had been reborn for the second time. The plot was exactly the same, and so were all the awful problems. She had planned to spend this life eating her fill and waiting to die, just coasting along until the supporting female character reached the end of her life and this whole existence was over. But she still wasn’t willing to accept her fate! If the heroine had a golden finger, then she’d just have to break it. 12.3kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
- 126 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 18.6kReads9.6Score4.2kShelves
- 127 To Avoid Planting Rice, I Work Hard to Pass the Imperial Exams 为了不插秧，努力考科举 [The short drama adaptation is now streaming] A modern SSS-rank researcher dies suddenly and transmigrates to the Great Xing Dynasty. His health is so poor that he's not allowed to pick rice in the fields until he's six. Sunstruck and light-headed, Li Jing decides that farming with this body is a risky business, so he immediately resolves to study for the imperial examinations. That's what he's good at; the transplanting can be left to the professionals! The following year, now named Li Yiqing, 22.8kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
- 128 The Lucky Little Farmhouse Girl's Words Always Come True 农家小福宝的嘴开过光 [Everyone's darling + doting on her husband + feel-good revenge story. Little Taohua is a professional dog lover who bites anyone who crosses her! Her little mouth is always right when it predicts bad things, never when it predicts good ones.] Little Taohua rested her chin in her hands and looked at her reborn second sister, her transmigrated eldest brother, her third brother who always seemed to coast to victory, and her fiercely protective mother. As for her scumbag father... he was there to b 211Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 129 Reborn as a Mad Princess: The Moon Shines Over the Western Tower 重生狂妃之明月罩西楼 In her previous life, Jiang Mingyue, daughter of a great general, took blows and shed blood for the Great Yin dynasty. She lived a passionate life and died a passionate death. So when she got another chance at life, she decided to stop making waves. She chose the rich, titled Zhao Xilou, a veteran slacker, as her husband, intending to while away her days with Lord Zhao, eating and waiting to die. But after becoming a Zhao, Jiang Mingyue discovered that her slacker husband might have no ambition 11.5kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
- 130 Wanwei, the Abandoned Daughter 弃女婉薇 Mu Wanwei was born into a life of privilege, yet she grew up in a Taoist temple. When she returned to her birthplace, ten years had already passed. Her loving mother was dead, her little sister had lost her wits, her birth father ignored her, and her eldest sister treated her as an enemy. Unexpectedly, the one who showed her the most affection was her grandfather, who had kept to himself and stayed out of the household's affairs for years... The eldest branch served in government, the second 16Reads9.0Score—Shelves
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