Matriarchal Romance: The Male Lead Starts Out Innocent, Then Turns Dark for Love and Becomes a Jealous Husband 女尊文，男主前期单纯，后为爱黑化嫉妒心强是妒夫

1. 51 女 Matriarchy: I Made My Rival’s Son a Stand-In, and He Exploded 女尊：让情敌之子当替身，他炸了 Matcha Red Bean Pie Pie Pie抹茶红豆派派派Ancient Romance149k WordsOngoing Everyone in the capital knows that Pei Lanzhen is a lunatic. He loathes women and once declared that he would never marry or have children. Just a man, yet he insisted on defying the world, building up an immense fortune through sheer force of will. His conduct is vicious and unpredictable, and he has made enemies all over the capital. People hate him, fear him, and despise him, yet there is nothing they can do about it. All they can do is curse him behind his back: “A star of ill fortune, doome 1.6kReads—Score18714d adds

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2. 52 强 Forced Love: My Wife, You Can’t Escape 强制爱：妻主休想逃 Dreaming of a Boat Crossing the Moon梦梁渡月舟Ancient Romance421k WordsCompleted 12.1kReads8.7Score90914d adds
3. 53 女 In a Matriarchal World, the Metaphysics Expert Finds Being Kept Is Rather Nice 女尊，玄学大佬觉得软饭香 Han Yu Who Loves Sweet Grapes爱吃香葡萄的寒羽Ancient Romance536k WordsCompleted [Beloved by all + laugh-out-loud comedy + absurd humor + devoted couple + one-to-one romance + sweet love story] An occult expert transmigrates to a matriarchal world, where the original owner tried to hang herself rather than marry into a wife’s family? Lu Mingya isn’t that foolish. So what if she’s marrying into someone else’s family? Anyone who objects can take it up with her! Hou Jun was furious. “You little brat! Don’t you dare run!” Lu: “I’m not a brat! Men are the ones who have that!” Qin 546Reads8.8Score10014d adds

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   The first book! Speaking of Prince Yong, Xie Jin, who in the capital doesn't know that although he is a prince, he is quite naive and inexperienced in worldly affairs? When the handsome young master of the Rong family married him, it truly surprised many people. Strangely enough, this prince is completely obedient to his husband, never daring to disobey him in the slightest, and has never even set foot in the brothels frequented by ordinary playboys. Rumors always circulate that the young master Rong has someone else in his heart, and is only reluctantly marrying because of a childhood betrothal. But Princess Xie Jin never cares about these gossips, because she knows better than anyone else Rong Weixu's true feelings for her.

4. 54 女 The Cold, Sickly, and Obsessive Male Emperor Bows to Me for Love 女尊之清冷病娇男帝屈身求我疼爱 Lampwick and Asarum灯盏细辛Ancient Romance304k WordsCompleted [Matriarchal society + yandere + one-on-one, both devoted to each other] [A no-nonsense woman who loves a life of leisure VS an obsessive man who has been plotting for ages] In her previous life, Lin Ruobao worked herself to death on the operating table. She thought transmigrating into the body of a noblewoman in a matriarchal kingdom would let her live a carefree life of wealth and privilege. But when she was young, she crossed paths with Ji Yan, a prince who had no one to rely on and was bulli 1.3kReads6.8Score11214d adds

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   💥💥💥① Ji Lianyu, his eyes red, hugged Wei Shao's waist, his collar slightly open, revealing her fair skin. He breathed heavily and said pitifully, "I won't make a fuss anymore, my wife, please don't be angry." ② On the eve of her wedding, he ignored her struggles and locked her to the headboard. "Are you crazy? You're getting married tomorrow!" "What does it matter?" His figure, dressed in a bright red and elaborate wedding gown, was reflected in her pupils. "Just tell me if I look beautiful like this…."

5. 55 白 A Patch of Cogon Grass on Cabbage Star 白菜星上的芨芨草 Three Million300万Modern Romance568k WordsOngoing Tough, no-nonsense female Alpha & abstinent, restrained, obsessive male Beta Wei An never dreamed that after being caught in a temporal vortex, she would open her eyes again on a desolate planet in the stars. In this strange environment, she faces beast transformations, supernatural abilities, mental powers, and an interstellar society with six genders. Everything around her is a mystery... not to mention the sudden addition beneath her... At last, Wei An loses her composure. Fighting back tears 15Reads8.3Score—14d adds
6. 56 穿 Transmigrated as an Alpha, Conquered by a Cold Omega 穿成女A，被高冷男O攻略 Han Yu Who Loves Sweet Grapes爱吃香葡萄的寒羽Modern Romance390k WordsCompleted ABO + Both Leads Are Each Other's Only One + Showbiz + Marriage First, Love Later + Contract Marriage + Wealthy CEO Lu Qianqian was a female special forces champion who died on a mission and transmigrated into a novel about a cherished daughter, becoming the real heiress who had been lost outside the family. It was an ABO novel she had read. Lu Qianqian was a vicious female alpha who served as a disposable villain. According to the plot, she was the fake heiress's devoted lapdog! To help her tru 1.7kReads8.5Score15614d adds
7. 57 女 Matriarchy: The Scheming Husband’s Jealousy Gets the Better of Him Again 女尊：心机夫郎的醋坛子又打翻了 With Bamboo以竹Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted (One-on-one romance, no cheating, male pregnancy) Gu Qiu transmigrates into a book, landing in the matriarchal world she wrote herself. With a house bare of everything and a delicate husband who bursts into tears at the drop of a hat, how will she turn their dire situation around? Will she reclaim wasteland and take up farming like other heroines, or put modern inventions to use? Gu Qiu chooses a different path. Even as a repeatedly unsuccessful scholar, she can write her way to the top. Then al 492Reads8.0Score—14d adds

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   💥💥💥① Ji Lianyu, her eyes red, hugged Wei Shao's waist, [thinking] her collar slightly open, revealing her fair skin, and said breathlessly and aggrievedly: I won't make a fuss anymore, my wife, please don't be angry. 🍀② On the eve of her wedding, he ignored her struggles and locked her to the headboard. "Are you crazy? You're getting married tomorrow!" "What does it matter?" Her pupils reflected his figure in his bright red and elaborate wedding dress. "Just tell me if I look beautiful like this..."

8. 58 穿 I Transmigrate into a Book Set in a Matriarchy and Marry a Sweet, Obedient Husband 穿书进女尊，娶个夫郎软又乖 Half True, Half False甄甄假假Ancient Romance289k WordsCompleted [Sweet romance + transmigrate into a book + matriarchal society + one-on-one, devoted couple + face-slapping + System] Qi Lu wanted a thrill, so she said goodbye to the world during a mountain-road race with her adrenaline through the roof. As her spirit drifted midway, Purification System 066 happened by, scooped her up, bound itself to her, and sent her into an alternate ancient world to complete a mission. She became the vicious female antagonist from the original book. At their first meeting 1.3kReads8.7Score13214d adds
9. 59 我 My Father Is the Noble Consort, So I Lie Flat and Live Off Him 我爹是贵妃，我躺平啃老 Careful Little Jiang小心小姜Ancient Romance235k WordsCompleted My dad is an imperial consort. He handles all the killing up front, while I lie flat and live off him in the back! Life after transmigrating is just this wonderful!!!!!!!!!! The universally adored heroine 970Reads8.4Score10514d adds
10. 60 女 My Husband in a Matriarchal World 女尊之我的夫郎 Pinching Cat Paws捏捏猫爪Ancient Romance258k WordsCompleted [Female-dominated world + one-on-one romance + strong heroine + sweet romance] Su Changyue transmigrated into a female-dominated world. She thought she could inherit the family business, find fun things to do whenever she felt like it, and live an easy, happy life. But she never expected her mother to be so unreliable and her father to be such a crybaby. With no other choice, she had to shoulder the burden of supporting the family. Her business grew bigger and bigger, and she excelled in the imp 2kReads8.4Score21014d adds
11. 61 女 In a Matriarchal World, the Villainous Tower Lord Is My Husband 女尊之反派楼主是我夫郎 Ninety-Five Little Cutie九五小可爱Ancient Romance303k WordsCompleted Pei Qingyu transmigrated into a book. After objecting to the plot point in a matriarchal novel where the male Villain became emperor, she left a casual comment and, by an unlikely coincidence, became a cannon-fodder girl with the same name as her, secretly in love with the male lead. The System gave her a mission to help the male lead become the emperor's husband. Just then, she ran into the great Villain Hua Yurong, who had tried to drug someone only to suffer the consequences himself. After sp 756Reads6.5Score—14d adds
12. 62 穿 Transmigrate to a Matriarchal World: A Few More Husbands Can't Hurt 穿越女尊：夫郎多点也无妨 Half Mountain Demon一半山妖Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Complete [Matriarchal world + one heroine, multiple partners + happy ending + growing heroine, not an all-powerful wish-fulfillment heroine] After an accident drops her into an unfamiliar world, Baili Shan has only one goal: keep her head down and wait for the transmigration portal to be repaired so she can go home. But then her hopeless romantic side gets the better of her. One moment, she's reeling from sweet nothings; the next, she's stabbed in the heart. Meanwhile, the beauty who silently wa 980Reads8.4Score10214d adds

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    This isn't the subject matter the original poster was looking for, but this story is good, I recommend it.

13. 63 快 Quick Transmigration: The Male Leads Always Throw Themselves Into My Arms 快穿：总有男主喜欢投怀送抱 Si Ning Ya祀宁吖Modern Romance566k WordsCompleted Female pursuer, 1v1, sweet romance, doting heroine, coercive love, obsessive love A deliberately orchestrated accident turns a merchant who never does anything without profit into a minor character in a small world. In one of the small worlds, a greedy substitute is chained with silver chains, blindfolded in black cloth and deprived of her sight, while the male lead watches with a gloomy expression. “If money can’t keep you here, then don’t blame me…” [A heads-up, everyone: you might want t 278Reads6.6Score—14d adds

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    I absolutely adore Bai's personality. I love money, and the male lead is annoyed that the female lead is a money-grubber. Later, he tells her that he's incredibly extravagant with money, and uses money and love to keep her by his side.

14. 64 重 Reborn in a Matriarchal World: Doting Only on My Darling Husband 重生女尊：独宠小娇夫 Scallion Up the Nose鼻孔里的大葱Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Gu Ye arrives in a beast-taming world ruled by women after transmigrating with a god-tier medical System. Men already have low status here, and ferocious beasts capable of taking human form rank even lower. Yet on her very first night, Gu Ye sleeps with a beast in human form. He’s pitiful, weak, and helpless, and he foolishly calls her “wife-master.” When he’s hurt, he bears it in silence, then tugs at Gu Ye’s sleeve and says, “Wife 2kReads9.2Score18614d adds
15. 65 女 Matriarchy: With a Pocket Dimension, I Can Spoil My Husband Without Worry 女尊：空间在手宠夫不愁 Nan Fengshuo南风烁Ancient Romance599k WordsCompleted [Sharp-tongued but soft-hearted heroine · sickly, unhinged male lead · mutual healing · heroine pampers the hero] After medical scientist Chu Hui died, she transmigrated into the body of a local thug who shared her name in a matriarchal dynasty? A house stripped bare, nothing to eat, one awful person after another, and endless natural disasters? No problem. She has a trillion-unit pocket dimension. Improving her family's circumstances, building up her influence, and turning the world upside down 403Reads8.4Score—14d adds

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    I highly recommend this book! [Kissing emojis]

16. 66 女 Matriarchy: I Bring Glory to Three Generations! My Husband Pretends to Be a God 女尊：我三代耀祖！宠夫郎扮神明 Meow Meow Jia家喵喵Ancient Romance63k WordsOngoing Matriarchal society + Male Pregnancy + Overpowered Golden Finger + False God + Imperial Exams + Pure Wish Fulfillment. Song Weizhi transmigrates into a matriarchal historical romance novel, becoming a brainless cannon-fodder villain who harasses the male lead early in the story. She is also the only girl in the Song family for three generations, making her the family’s pride and joy in name as well as fact. Her stern, cold-faced mother is gentle only with her, her two fathers dote on her like th —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    This author's books are absolutely fantastic! Another one is also incredibly good; it's not finished yet, so you should check it out—the beginnings are also excellent.

17. 67 春 Spring Returns, and the Land Smiles 春来江山笑 Bubble Trickster花式冒泡Ancient Romance833k WordsCompleted [A heroine who grows into an empress + multiple male leads, one heroine with many partners + power struggles + a cast of beautiful, strong, tragic characters + love rivals fighting for her + a childhood-friend general, the Minister of Justice, a neighboring prince, a reclusive divine doctor, and a loyal shadow guard: every kind of male lead you could want] Nearly three hundred years have passed since the founding of the Great Qi dynasty, through the reigns of twelve emperors. History has seen tw 1.3kReads—Score—14d adds

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    The female lead is always disliked by the male leads. She's a crown princess who eventually becomes empress, leading five male leads in both career pursuits and romance. All of them are intelligent, beautiful, strong, and tragically beautiful, with a fast-paced and engaging plot.

18. 68 女 A Matriarchal World, but I'm Poor, So I Have No Choice but to Marry Up 女尊但贫穷，只能被迫攀高枝了 Unspoken Passion, The One and Only染情不可说唯一Ancient Romance311k WordsOngoing No palace scheming or domestic infighting whatsoever. I reject the idea that women have to fight among themselves. Being the best in a world defined by men still makes you an accessory, so women must seize power and make money. I have eight husbands. It’s not that only eight men fell in love with me; these eight are ruthless enough that they were the only ones left in the final round. As someone who transmigrated, I had no peerless beauty, no golden finger, and no System. So when I started out 885Reads8.8Score—14d adds

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    One of the male leads is exactly like the one you described. Come watch it now and vote for your favorite male lead!

19. 69 漂 The Beautiful Girl Next Door Wakes Up and Joins the Army. Officers Fight Over Her 漂亮白月光觉醒随军，首长争又抢 Nan Wanwan南绾绾Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted “Second Chance at Love, Spatial Ability, Everyone’s Favorite, Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium, Adorable Baby, Military Marriage” In the third year of living apart from He Shaoyan and fighting over a divorce, Ye Qingzhi began having prophetic dreams. At first, they were just trivial things, until one day she dreamed that her brother-in-law imprisoned her, while her sister became his accomplice and drove her insane before she died a gruesome death. After she died, the man who had repeatedly cl 27.7kReads7.0Score2.5k14d adds

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    The day the baby was born, He Shaoyan paced back and forth outside the delivery room hundreds of times. When the nurse came out to say that mother and daughter were safe, his legs went weak, and he almost collapsed to the ground. Once inside, the first person he saw was Ye Qingzhi. She was covered in sweat and smiled at him. He knelt down and buried his face in her hands. She felt his shoulders trembling, but didn't say anything, only gently patting his head.

20. 70 烟EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 A Night of Misty Rain一夕烟雨Eastern Fantasy9.5M WordsOngoing [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1k14d adds
21. 71 我 Could I Really Get Canceled in a Rules-Based Horror Game? 我还能在规则怪谈里塌房不成？ Xi Yao喜杳Mystery2.2M WordsOngoing [Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + Horror Game + Strong Female Team + A Group of People With Questionable Sanity] Just before their debut, the group Shili belonged to was betrayed by a bandmate, who framed them for bullying. Their debut fell through, while the bandmate won netizens’ sympathy and relaunched her career to great success. To this day, Shili’s social media accounts are still flooded with abuse from the other girl’s rabid fans. As luck would have it, in the third year after the com 63.5kReads9.6Score7.5k14d adds
22. 72 异EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Peng Pai彭湃Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
23. 73 起 Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术 Bao Erri鲍尔日Urban1.5M WordsCompleted When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get 230.7kReads9.6Score66.9k14d adds
24. 74 我EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 Purple Dream Wandering Dragon紫梦游龙Mystery10.3M WordsOngoing The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 743.2kReads9.4Score41.2k14d adds
25. 75 大EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban4.0M WordsOngoing [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 513.4kReads9.5Score39.7k14d adds
26. 76 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
27. 77 诸EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 Ninety Autumns in January一月九十秋Urban3.7M WordsCompleted I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5k14d adds
28. 78 游EN Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 The Cat Isn't Bald猫不秃Sports3.1M WordsCompleted [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 998kReads9.5Score85.8k14d adds

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