Any Pure-Love Novels with a Female Lead Who Loves Only Herself: Clear-Headed, Cool, and Strong 有没有纯爱文，女主纯纯爱自己，清醒冷静大女主
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The Empress Refuses Love, While the Tyrant Goes Mad and Turns to the Dark Side 娘娘不入爱河，暴君疯批入魔
[One-on-one romance, devoted couple + palace intrigue + regretful pursuit, clear-headed heroine, everyone's unattainable ideal] Meng Tang is a gracious, gentle empress who never competes for favor. Everyone thinks she is a true white lotus standing tall in the harem, and even the tyrant believes it. He takes a new concubine, and she smiles, congratulates him, and arranges for the newcomer to spend the night with him. He sends her restorative medicine, and she obediently takes it, knowing full we
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The Sweetheart Deliberately Seduces the Cold Emperor, and He Falls for Her 娇娇蓄意勾引，清冷帝王沦陷了
Palace intrigue + push and pull + seduction and rising to power + falling deeper at every step + devotion to one woman in the later story Loving her and knowing it + a man in power bowing his head for love * The short drama is out now. Search for “The Sweetheart Deliberately Seduces Him, and the Cold Emperor Falls” on Fanqie or Hongguo to watch the full series. * Pei Tingyue transmigrated into a book. She became a disposable consort in The Palace in Power. In the original story, she was simple-m
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Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春
[Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles
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Hand Him the Reins 授他以柄
With the city about to fall and the kingdom on the brink of ruin, Pei Qing wrote a letter asking that man for help. For seven whole days, there was no reply. But just when all hope seemed lost, he arrived. His peerlessly handsome face was full of disdain and contempt. Xiao Yuan walked into the imperial bedchamber with blood dripping from his blade and lazily called out, “Elder Brother.” Having earned merit by rushing to the emperor’s defense, he naturally expected a reward. “I have plenty of gol
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Obsessed with Wild Lotus 沉迷野荷
[Everyone's darling, male rivalry, love triangle drama, open and covert competition, 1vN, all male leads are virgins] Xia He appears cool and aloof, but she's actually a little calculating, with ambitions of her own. With a goal in mind, Xia He gets into one of the country's top universities from a small town, never imagining that she would step straight into a whirlwind of trouble. There, she meets one obsessive, domineering man after another... or should that be men? Her bold, passionate high
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I Shall Not Become an Immortal 我不成仙
The torrential rains in the north continued for months, until the land became the seafloor and the mountains turned into islands. The world had changed beyond recognition. At the same time, a young man who was about to get married suddenly fell into a coma and would not wake. As the young man came to, a long-buried history slowly began to surface. How many secrets are hidden in this peaceful land?
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I Will Not Become an Immortal 我不成仙
What doesn't kill me, I'll make kill me. There's no other reason. I cultivate a special Dao that lets me inherit all the cultivation of whoever kills me. My senior brother tortured me to death for his green-tea junior sister. I put on a relieved smile and said, “I don't blame you.” My husband, a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, wanted to kill his wife to prove his Dao. I wiped away nonexistent tears and cried, “Husband, I'm willing.” After all, getting this much cultivation is just too sati
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I Will Not Become an Immortal 我不成仙
I Refuse to Become an Immortal
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Little Deer’s First Heart-Fluttering Book 小鹿怦怦跳的第一本书
Transmigrate into a male-oriented power fantasy as the ultimate female lead. [No CP] [Female-Oriented Power Fantasy] [Rivalry for Her Affection] [Everyone's Favorite] He Ning transmigrates into an urban power fantasy novel. With the script in hand, she knows she's just one of the male lead's many backup options. She kicks away the male lead, who's been pestering her relentlessly, and starts living the life of a true female lead. He Ning rents out the big house her parents left her. Then, one
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My 26 Male Housemates: The Counter-Capture Strategy 我的26个男房客之反攻略
[Female-Led] [Everyone's Favorite] [Strong Female Lead] [Playboy] [Satire] Ying Qian gets bound to a sweet-romance System, and so-called male leads keep showing up in her life, one after another becoming her tenants. There's a domineering CEO, 183 centimeters tall, with an overpowering need for control and possession. There's an innocent, puppy-like junior student who depends on Ying Qian with all his heart. There's a charismatic bar dancer, whom Ying Qian rescues like a heroine saving a handsom
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My 26 Male Roommates?! 我的26个男房客？！？
We big women deserve to read feel-good stories with heroines like this! [Gender Swap] [No Romance] [Genuine Wish Fulfillment] [Love Rivals in a Battle Royale] [Everyone's Favorite] This story is packed with memorable quotes. "It's only natural for women to beat men. What woman doesn't beat men?" "The best dowry a man can bring is his innocence and chastity." "Only petty people and men are difficult to deal with. A man without talent is a virtuous man." The three big women of the Jiang family: th
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My Three Thousand Male Tenants 我的三千男房客
Women like us should be reading feel-good stories like this! [No romance + keeps her options open + focused on her career] “One pair of red lips, kissed by thousands? I’m a woman with a college diploma. I deserve better!” Though Liu Zheng graduated from a junior college, she has a heart set on getting ahead! Dumping her sweetheart as soon as she gets a better offer is just one step on her road to success! There are plenty of handsome men in the world. Yan Ci paid for her junior college education
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My Husband Doesn’t Like Me? Does That Stop Me from Becoming the Mistress of the House? 夫君不喜我？耽误我做主母吗
[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
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Quick Transmigration: The Green Tea Beauty Is Alluring and Charming 快穿之绿茶她千娇百媚
#A little bitter at first, but the more you savor it, the more fragrant it becomes, with an unforgettable aftertaste.# Jiang Cha was a green tea spirit, stunningly beautiful with a graceful figure and countless admirers. But Jiang Cha wasn’t interested. She had no use for anyone she didn’t feel the urge to conquer. Then the “Comeback System” came to her, asking her to change the fates of the cannon-fodder heroines in novels who loved but could never have the men they wanted. Jiang Cha smiled swe
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Every Psycho I Bullied and Toyed With Fell in Love With Me 我欺凌玩弄过的疯批，都爱上我了
*Quick transmigration | devoted couples | no romantic rivalry between women | male pursues female *Elegant, self-interested, rational heroine × sexually voracious, unhinged male leads❗ Yun Siyao was sickly and frail, yet cold and self-serving by nature. Bound to a System, she traveled to various small worlds to complete missions. Who could have guessed she’d get entangled with a sinister madman every time, each one refusing to let her go! [World One: Beautiful, vicious female powerbroker vs. unh
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Power Speaks in Silence 权上无声
[Unusual premise + assassin’s rise + strong heroine + political intrigue + cold and heartless + mildly yandere + cool-headed lunatic + male lead rises from the nth place] * Su Mian was just a palace maid serving a princess. On the day the Southern Yan Kingdom fell, she watched everyone die before her without a flicker of emotion. The princess gave her an even more perilous mission. Until it was done, she had to stay alive. But in a world thrown into chaos, she was sold as a slave and forced to e
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The Princess Goes on a Killing Spree Every Day! 公主她每天都在嘎嘎乱杀！
[Female-led power fantasy + ruthless, unhinged heroine + an extreme “I’d rather betray others than let them betray me” mentality] Xuan Mingyao was reborn at the age of seven, back before anything had happened. Though she was the empress’s legitimate daughter, a princess treated like royalty, her younger brother, the crown prince, was about to die of illness. Her mother would soon be consumed by worry, grow estranged from the emperor, and eventually be deposed in the witchcraft scandal. Overnight
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Reborn, Zhen Huan and Consort Hua Go on a Rampage in the Imperial Harem 重生后，甄嬛和华妃在后宫杀疯了
[Zhen Huan and Prince Guo both reborn] [*two alphas seek revenge* *regicide couple* *enemies become allies*] On the eve of the selection, Zhen Huan is reborn. In her previous life, she gave her heart to the wrong person and watched the man she loved most die in her arms. This time, she decides not to enter the palace. But even when she gets her wish and marries Prince Guo, she still cannot escape her fate of entering the palace as a consort. Entering the palace with a heart full of hatred, Zhen
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Quick Transmigration: The Supporting Female Character Doesn’t Want to Die 快穿之女配不想死
The only wish of these tragic female side characters is to stay alive. The task may look simple, but it's actually hell-level difficult. System No. 199 is a defective System slated for destruction. It can only avoid being deleted by proving its worth, so it chose Mu Cheng and offered her a deal. She agreed in exchange for being reborn... Her fellow competitors and ex-boyfriends are all reborn, and one misunderstanding made them all want to kill the original host. Could things get any worse? The
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Driven to Death by Her Cultivator Mistress? I Take Up My Sword and Storm the Ninth Heaven 被修仙外室逼死？我提剑杀上九霄
[Power fantasy, a female lead who begins as a villain and turns righteous, no transmigration, no rebirth] Only when she was dying did Li Fu learn why she could never defeat her husband's mistress, Huayue. It turned out that beyond this world lay a realm of cultivation. Huayue had come from that realm. With Taoist magic at her command, there was no way Li Fu could ever beat her. Tortured, skinned, and dismembered, Li Fu was abandoned by everyone and died after enduring every kind of suffering. Ho
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Can You Believe It? The Empress Wrote a Hundred Palace Rules 谁懂啊，娘娘写了一百条宫规
[Palace Intrigue + Ancient-Era Heroine + Reborn Supporting Female Character + Transmigrated Supporting Female Character + Everyone Is Clever + Clear-Eyed Heroine] From ordinary palace candidate to empress. Everyone believes the emperor is devoted to Ning Wanyin. Only Ning Wanyin knows how treacherous and perilous the journey has been. She has survived every step through sheer caution. Lady Tang, reborn: “She killed me in my last life. This time, of course I’ll… make her my friend! Do I really th
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Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger, Then Lure Your Archenemy Home 扮猪吃虎，将死对头拐回家
[Secret Identities, Two Powerful Leads, Cunning, Double Lives, Sweet and Docile Yet Vicious] Qian Si is an ace assassin, codenamed Death, and the uncrowned king of the underworld. In public, she is a delicate heiress who can barely take care of herself. In secret, she can stir up the world all on her own. Yan Li’s influence reaches across both the underworld and the legitimate world. He has secretly crossed paths with Qian Si for years, and through a twist of fate, he snatched something she had
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The Pinker the Car, the Fiercer the Driver: I’m Claiming the Top Spot 车越粉人越狠这榜一我当定了
Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec
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Luhua Nong 露华浓
Original title: Finding a Better Match: I’m Done Being the Marquess’s Wife! Regarding plagiarism, don’t make baseless accusations. The publication dates are there for all to see. [Traditional historical romance and household intrigue + strong heroine and hero + mutual devotion + a prince who cherishes his wife] A merchant’s daughter marries into a marquess’s household, becoming the laughingstock of the capital. For six years, Jiang Shu lives alone and supports the entire household without compla
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The Family's Beloved Girl: The Cannon-Fodder Darling of Her Terrible Family 七零团宠：极品家人的炮灰娇娇女
[Brooding, Brawny Man + Sweet Wife + Completed] Lu Jiajia is delicate and soft. Then, in the blink of an eye, she becomes a useless cannon-fodder character in the 1970s, with a whole family of vicious oddballs in tow. Yet in an era that favors men above women, she is the apple of her family’s eye. Her father and mother: “Jiajia is our precious girl. She deserves to be spoiled.” Her brothers: “My sister is frail and sickly. How could she do farm work!” Lu Jiajia: “…I want the ultimate winning han
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Such a Good Girl 好一个乖乖女
[Print edition signed] [Short drama now streaming] [Sweet romance with a touch of angst] [Fake-good, scheming heroine x domineering wealthy tyrant] [Both leads are each other’s only one] Duan Xiuming first met Lu Mingyu at a wedding. She was stunningly beautiful, yet looked like a well-behaved good girl, sitting off to the side and painting because someone had told her to. “Boring woman,” he judged. But in the blink of an eye, Lu Mingyu gave him a huge surprise! She destroyed her painting and co
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Too Late for Regret 追悔莫及
Too Late for Regret
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I Dig the Pits, You Fill Them In. Everyone in Our Sect Is a Rebel 我挖坑，你填土，师门全是反骨
[Original title: I Became the Beloved Little Junior Sister and Turned the Cultivation World Upside Down] Xie Sisi transmigrated and became the cannon-fodder supporting character in a novel she’d once mocked, a character with the exact same name. The supporting character’s role was to bring the heroine to an immortal sect, dutifully serve as her medicine human, and ultimately die after being used to test the heroine’s medicines. Xie Sisi, who knew the plot: “Bah! Whoever wants to be a medicine hu
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Videos on the Sky Screen: Why Have the Ancients All Gone Crazy? 天幕直播刷视频，古人怎全癫了？
[Watching videos + showing them to people of the past + protagonist as a plot device + fun + contrast] The videos I watch connect to places throughout ancient China, and emperors from every dynasty are stunned when they see them! Ying Zheng is dumbfounded: “The pills I took were poisonous?!” Zhu Yuanzhang is dumbfounded too. “What do you mean, the Ming Dynasty’s God of War?!” Every emperor is dumbfounded. (The short blurb doesn’t do it justice, head to the main story.)
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Reborn, I Tore Up the Family Tree 重生后，我撕烂了族谱
Reborn, I Tore Up the Family Tree
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The Wise Do Not Fall in Love 智者不入爱河
At his birthday party, movie emperor Ning Qi said tactfully: "When it comes to dating, I only like women younger than me." I gave him his starry-blue McLaren. I paved his path to stardom. Everything he has now, I gave him. Where does he get the nerve To say something so infuriating to me, his thirty-one-year-old sugar mommy?
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A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金
Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More
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Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代
Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!!
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Traveling Between Two Worlds: The 1970s 两界穿梭之七零年代
Wu Xiaoyao is a working-class nobody, a corporate drudge who likes to unwind by grilling skewers and letting loose whenever he has a bit of free time. But an out-of-control dump truck sends him hurtling back to the fiery age of the 1970s. What surprises him is that he can travel back and forth between the seventies and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before him.
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Dual Travels in Republican-Era China: Slaughtering the Japanese Invaders 双穿民国之屠戮倭寇
Li Xiaren was an outstanding young man who had been 25 for years. After finally finding a girlfriend, he was just about to duo queue with her when a ball lightning bolt whisked him away to Shanghai during the Republican era. To his surprise, the mark left by the ball lightning lets him travel back and forth between the two worlds. In an instant, two monumental eras open up before him...
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Transmigrate to the Water Margin: Dominate the World 穿越水浒之雄霸天下
Wu Zhantian was one of China’s top special forces soldiers. While carrying out a top-secret mission, he was betrayed by a traitor. To ensure his teammates could withdraw safely, Wu Zhantian stayed behind alone. Seriously wounded in a sneak attack by the Japanese invaders, he chose to detonate the button bomb he carried rather than be taken prisoner. He and dozens of members of the Japanese Kamikaze Special Forces perished together. Wu Zhantian thought he was as good as dead, but the flourishing
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Traveling Between Two Worlds: 1970 两界穿梭之1970
After getting drunk in an accident, Wu Xiaoyao somehow transmigrated to the fiery era of the past. With a System that lets him travel between two worlds, he now has two great eras before him...
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Between Two Worlds: 1973 两界穿梭之1973
An unexpected transmigration brought Wu Xiaoyao, an outstanding young man from the 21st century, to the 1970s. The golden finger that comes with transmigrating gave him hope of surviving. As the System leveled up, Wu Xiaoyao discovered that he could travel back and forth between the modern era and the 1970s. Two completely different worlds opened up before him!
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Rising to Power Between Two Worlds 两界穿梭之崛起
After getting drunk and tumbling down a flight of stairs, the protagonist Wu Xiaoyao accidentally transmigrates to the 1970s. Luckily, he has the essential transmigration golden finger: releasing animals. See how Wu Xiaoyao carves out a place of his own in this fiery era.
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The Controller of Ten Thousand Worlds, Roaming the City 万界掌控者都市逍遥
Wu Zhantian, a young man from Huaxia, accidentally fell from the summit of Mount Hua. He was rescued by the Venerable Myriad Swords, who happened to be passing by Earth. Wu Zhantian was then taken to the top-tier world of the Hongmeng Realm, where he became the Venerable Myriad Swords' disciple and began cultivating. By chance, his master found the Origin of the World in the Myriad Venerables' Secret Realm. But Dragon Rock Emperor, an ancient skeleton, and the Venerable Myriad Swords' eldest dis
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The Iron-Blooded Tigers Battle the Ming 铁血虎贲战大明
Chinese special forces king Wu Zhantian was betrayed by a traitor during a mission. To avoid being captured by the enemy, Wu Zhantian set off the miniature bomb strapped to his body, dying alongside dozens of enemy special forces soldiers. By chance, he touched the laws of the game. He rebuilt his body, copied abilities, and saved the Ming Dynasty from ruin. To stop the Yangzhou Massacre and the Jiading Massacres, Wu Zhantian, China's special forces king, refused to stand by. He tore Aobai apart
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Transmigrate to the Song Dynasty: The Empire's Mighty Rise 穿越之大宋雄风
A wondrous transmigration, invincible from the start. See how our protagonist, Wu Yue, recruits the heroes of Liangshan, gets up close and personal with Li Shishi, defeats mighty bandits and sweeps away powerful invaders. See how we Han people conquer the world.
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Transmigrate to the Late Han and Fight for the World 穿越汉末争天下
Wu Xiaoyao, a Chinese special forces soldier, is betrayed by a traitor while carrying out a mission in an island nation. To cover his teammates' retreat, he detonates the bomb strapped to him, taking the enemy down with him. Unexpectedly, he awakens the destiny of China. His body is remade, and he transmigrates to the Three Kingdoms era. By a twist of fate, he meets the peerless master Li Yan, who takes him on as a disciple! With his extraordinary combat skills, assassination techniques, and aut
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The Urban Cultivator’s Carefree Life 修真者都市逍遥
Wu Xiaoyao was a young man from China. While climbing Mount Laojun, he was accidentally sucked into a black hole and transported to a world filled with powerful cultivators. As an ordinary mortal, he thought he was as good as dead, but unexpectedly, he gained the cultivation legacy of the Venerable of Ten Thousand Swords. Relying on his Chinese bloodline, he fought his way through every obstacle. After countless trials and hardships, he rose to the realm of Supreme Sovereign of the Myriad Worlds
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