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  1. 151 The Illegitimate Daughter 外室女 Ancient Romance808k WordsCompleted Before she transmigrated, Shen Yi had lived through one hardship after another. Then she was reborn as a baby into a happy family. What could be more carefree? She never imagined it was all a lie. Her father’s love for her mother was fake, and so was the marriage contract he gave her. He had merely come to the Duke’s household to experience life, while Shen Yi, her brother, and her mother were just byproducts of that experience. That would have been bad enough, but her scumbag father also had a 7.8kReads9.3Score893Shelves
  2. 152 Better to Ascend the Throne Than Kneel, Cold-Faced, as the Mistress of the House 跪着冷脸做主母不如登基当皇帝 Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Palace intrigue in the first half + sharing power in government in the second half + female heir to the throne + a cast of lunatics + no romance + System clashes + ruthless heroine + heroine enters the palace with her child and marries again + a grab bag of elements] On the day she entered the palace, a voice appeared in Xie Xuzhen’s mind. It called itself the Comeback Palace Intrigue System, and said it had come to help Xie Xuzhen, who was about to enter the palace, reach the pinnacle of life. 1.9kReads9.1Score267Shelves
  3. 153 Mother of the Nation? No, I Want to Rule the World! 母仪天下?不,我要权倾天下! Ancient Romance986k WordsOngoing [Alternate-World Palace Intrigue + No Romance + Raising Children + Never Falls for the Emperor] Content warning: The male lead is not chaste. Palace intrigue runs throughout, and the emperor never favors just one consort. After a car accident, Chu Ningzhi was pulled into the alternate world of Great Zhou. She had to become Empress Dowager to survive. To stay alive, she entered the palace through the selection and gave birth to a child. She planned every move carefully and defeated all her enemie 179Reads8.8Score—Shelves
  4. 154 Transmigrated as a Bedclimbing Palace Maid in a Palace-Intrigue Novel 穿成宫斗文里的爬床宫女 Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted No prestigious family background, no peerless beauty. After transmigrating, film queen Li Songyue finds herself cast as the most expendable bed-climbing maid in a palace intrigue novel. The transmigrated heroine is ahead of her, the reborn supporting female lead is behind her, and there’s also a demanding emperor to contend with. From bed-climbing maid to empress dowager of the realm. She won’t know how cold it is at the top until she climbs there. 228Reads—Score—Shelves
  5. 155 Tear Apart the Harem! Win Favor! She's a Lunatic, Who Dares Cross Her? 撕后宫!得恩宠!她是疯批谁敢惹 Ancient Romance683k WordsCompleted [Palace Intrigue Only + Concubine-born Daughter + Reborn + Revenge + Everyone Is Evil + Wish-Fulfillment] [The story begins before the heroine enters the palace] [The emperor favors no one at first, and the heroine doesn’t fall in love] Jiang Shiying had died once. She died in childbirth, after her own elder sister had her killed to keep the baby. Reborn, she had made up her mind: she would enter the palace and get revenge, but she wouldn’t suffer! Not her stepmother or her elder sister, not eve 7.5kReads9.3Score952Shelves
  6. 156 Back to Her Audition Year, She Rises Through the Harem 重回选秀当年,她在后宫步步高升 Ancient Romance360k WordsCompleted In her previous life, Su Ningwan, daughter of the chancellor, was far too innocent. Though she was greatly favored after entering the palace, it was all a ploy to lull her into a false sense of security. In her fifth year there, she was framed for poisoning the imperial heir, thrown into the Cold Palace, and left to die a miserable death. Her family suffered because of her, enduring terrible hardships in prison before they died. She never expected to open her eyes and find herself back in the ye 215Reads8.4Score—Shelves
  7. 157 Days in a Palace Drama with a System 带着系统在宫斗剧里的日子 Female-Channel Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted With a reincarnation System from the underworld, Shu Ning has no choice but to fight to survive through each mission. P.S. Everyone has their own writing style. This story is based on TV dramas, and the author’s writing may not suit everyone’s tastes. I hope every reader finds a story they love! This is the everyday life of a wage worker in a palace-intrigue novel. Primarily set in Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace and Empresses in the Palace... (It’s a slow transmigration story.) 3.2kReads8.5Score139Shelves
  8. 158 The Emperor's Cherished Consort Nian: Her Majesty Only Wants to Be Empress Dowager 盛宠年贵妃:娘娘她只想当太后 Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Not a clean romance, devoted-to-one-only story. Reader discretion advised] On the first day Nian Xiyue arrived in the Qing dynasty, she knew she was the famous Consort Nian from history. She was destined to become a secondary consort in Prince Yong’s residence, bear Yinzhen three sons and a daughter, and be his sole favorite. If her son Fuhui hadn’t died, how could Hongli have inherited the throne? But Nian Xiyue wanted none of that. To escape her fate of dying young at twenty-eight, she studie 4.5kReads8.3Score403Shelves
  9. 159 Sign-In System: I Don’t Want Palace Intrigue, I Want to Retire 签到系统:不想宫斗想养老 Ancient Romance243k WordsCompleted No romance. Short story, not a traditional power fantasy, and pure palace intrigue with no love story. Huaixi was an overworked office drone who never expected to die suddenly and transmigrate into the body of a consort who had been married into the palace in someone else’s place. Fortunately, she had a System to help her. Otherwise, she feared she wouldn’t have survived the first chapter. 75Reads6.5Score—Shelves
  10. 160 The Empress Is Exquisitely Charming: Winning the Palace Battles and Raising a Child to Become Empress 娘娘千娇百媚,宫斗养崽坐后位 Ancient Romance486k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Pure Palace Intrigue + Raising a Child + Clear-Headed Heroine + Focused on Her Career + Light Ensemble Cast] Xie Zhao transmigrates to the state of Beiqi, a country that has never existed in recorded history. When she learns she is to take part in the selection two years later, she begins diligently practicing all kinds of skills. After successfully being selected, her goal is to safely give birth to a prince, raise him into an outstanding crown prince, put him on the throne, a 360Reads7.3Score—Shelves
  11. 161 A Concubine's Rise to Power in the Imperial Harem 深宫庶女上位记 Ancient Romance416k WordsCompleted She was the illegitimate daughter of a fifth-rank official, and one day she entered the palace as a consort; The struggle was not confined to men. The battles between women were always the cruelest of all; These women were intelligent, beautiful, and well-born; For love, wealth, and power beyond compare, they fought each other to the death, even turning against their own sisters and leaving their youth and beauty amid the red walls and green-tiled roofs of the palace; 834Reads8.4Score105Shelves
  12. 162 Palace Intrigue and Beauty: The Makeup System Helps Me Outshine Them All 如此宫斗之美妆系统助我艳压群芳 Ancient Romance310k WordsCompleted [Scheming Green-Tea Girl + No Romance + Palace-Intrigue Wish-Fulfillment + Slow Pace + Light System] Liu Yaoyao transmigrates. A beauty influencer, she falls asleep and wakes up in a feudal dynasty, where she has become an overlooked concubine-in-waiting. She also gets the makeup counter every girl dreams of, fully stocked with top-brand cosmetics and skincare products! Later, it can even be upgraded into a palace-intrigue System! This is the story of a woman who combines makeup skills with cunn 206Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  13. 163 An Empress’s Daily Harem Battles 娘娘日常宫斗忙 Ancient Romance369k WordsCompleted Not a one-man-one-woman romance, and he won't be devoted to just one woman. Read with caution. (Satisfying revenge + steady rise through the ranks + settling every score) From Concubine Xu to High Consort Xu, Xu Chenbi takes every step with care: becoming pregnant, giving birth, and rising in rank. After ascending to the empress's throne, will she become a shield for the emperor's beloved? Sorry, you two enjoy your romance. My goal is to become the empress dowager! 180Reads6.4Score—Shelves
  14. 164 I Find the Top Scholar So Charming 我见探花多娇媚 Ancient Romance1.8M WordsCompleted Jing Bao has three wishes: First, protect the family estate of the main branch; second, enter the Imperial College, place third in the palace examinations, and bring honor to the family; third, keep living as a man in disguise until the end. Lord Gu has three wishes too: First, help someone protect their family estate; second, help that someone place third in the palace examinations; third, bring the disguised top scorer home and make her the mistress of the household. 4.1kReads9.4Score756Shelves
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  15. 165 Clouds Veil the Crescent Moon 云掩初弦月 Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Romance takes a back seat to ambition, an exceptionally powerful heroine] On their wedding night, in the stillness of deep night, she heard him say, “I can give you the title of my wife, but not my heart or my body. I hope you'll live out your days peacefully in the Liu household.” Yun Xuanyue became the Liu family's wife in name only. When he climbed the social ladder and wanted her to share the title of wife with a noblewoman, she dusted herself off and prepared to leave. But the Liu family c 2.7kReads9.2Score351Shelves
  16. 166 The Pride of a Military Family: Reborn with My Wacky Ancestors 将门天骄:带着逗比老祖宗们重生 Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Historical setting + lighthearted comedy + strong heroine + coming-of-age female lead + ensemble cast + political intrigue + defending the homeland] Chu Tianjiao was the eldest legitimate daughter of a military family. In her previous life, she devoted herself to fighting for her country, but after her death, her soul was imprisoned in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, unable to pass on. She spent her days chatting, joking, and shooting the breeze with a group of imperial ancestors, enjoying what 9.1kReads9.4Score1.5kShelves
  17. 167 The Bride-to-Be 将嫁 Ancient Romance287k WordsCompleted Three years ago, to pacify the western frontier, he married the daughter of the Governor-General of Yongzhou as his empress. But during his lifetime, he met Huo Shiying, the one and only woman of her kind, and the sole female general in the Great Yan dynasty. She doesn't know, and no one else does either, that he has followed her life for twenty whole years. When he was six, he first heard his mother and eldest sister mention her name, and wondered how a two-year-old girl could have been taken t 25kReads9.6Score3.3kShelves
  18. 168 After Breaking Off My Engagement, Kangxi Made Me His Favorite Consort 退婚后,我被康熙独宠后宫 Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [A flirtatious beauty who loves to play games versus a seemingly proper, devoted emperor who falls into her trap] He YinYin, a star who rose from humble beginnings, died and transmigrated into the body of Hesheli, the Qing Dynasty wife of Longkodo, who was turned into a human pincushion. Fortunately, she had only just gotten engaged. To escape her tragic fate, she calmly thought things through and laid out the following plan. Step one: take Longkodo’s credit for saving the emperor... Step two: g 10.5kReads9.3Score1kShelves
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  19. 169 Spring Deepens in Bianjing 汴京春深 Ancient Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Audio version now available, welcome to listen] Madam Rongguo, Wang Fu, devoted herself to her family until she fell gravely ill and died. She was reborn in the body of Meng Jiuniang, a foolish illegitimate daughter who was only seven years old. In her previous life, her husband became her uncle in this life, and her son became her cousin. In this life, Meng Wan had a simple wish: to live peacefully and watch her son, her cousin Su Fang in this life, grow up safe and sound. But as she and a gro 18.9kReads9.5Score2.4kShelves
  20. 170 The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳 Ancient Romance166k WordsCompleted Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held 48.6kReads9.7Score7.1kShelves
  21. 171 With Jin Chang’an (Based on the Screen Adaptation Starring Song Yi and Cheng Lei) 与晋长安(宋轶、丞磊主演影视原著) Ancient Romance155k WordsCompleted The hit drama starring Song Yi and Cheng Lei is now airing! A beloved historical romance by Jiu Lu Fei Xiang! Female general vs. puppy-like boy. The child she casually picked up turns out to have two sides? A cold little gentleman by day, a loyal black knight by night. Is he a puppy turning into a wolf, and which side is the real him? A tale of love and hate between a female general and the heir of an enemy state! Li Shuang, the adopted daughter of a great general, guards the borders of the Grea 5.8kReads9.6Score929Shelves
  22. 172 The Youngest Daughter, Changle 幺女长乐 Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted Miss Zhu Si’s rough fighting skills have always made her the laughingstock of the capital’s noble families. In everyone else’s eyes, that’s the sort of work meant for household guards. Zhu Changle, who considers herself invincible, isn’t ashamed of it. She’s proud. Not everyone can protect their own home, but she can! And then some! She’d even turn the whole capital upside down to protect it! Don’t believe her? Try her! 18.8kReads9.5Score3.2kShelves
  23. 173 A Qing Dynasty Transmigration: The Life Player 清穿之生活玩家 Ancient Romance465k WordsCompleted [Palace intrigue + lots of childbirth + clear-headed, decisive black-lotus heroine + managing the harem + slow transmigration] World One: Kangxi, complete. World Two: Yongzheng, complete. She transmigrates into the Qing palace. Starting out in modern times as a hairpin maker, Jiang Mengyu puts every skill at her disposal to work. She's already started hustling, thanks! No feelings, just technique. Her intelligence stays sharp, and she's a born workaholic. Content warning: When faced with life-or 4.1kReads9.2Score295Shelves
  24. 174 An Lingrong Is Reborn into a Disastrous Start 安陵容重生到天崩开局 Female-Channel Fanfiction520k WordsCompleted Reborn into the disastrous opening scene of a blood test to determine parentage, An Lingrong works to unite everyone she can. First, she gets the useless An Bihuai out of the way, then gradually takes revenge on each person who humiliated her in her previous life, ultimately finding happiness. 1. An Lingrong is still An Lingrong, and she is not a good person. 2. An Lingrong’s appearance draws on the original work’s descriptions. She has a very bewitching face. 3. Zhen Huan’s intelligence is not 8.1kReads9.3Score688Shelves
  25. 175 The Concubine with Maxed-Out Skills Is Turning Herself into an Empress? 技能拉满的侍妾,卷成皇后了? Ancient Romance620k WordsCompleted Empress Wenzhao was a famously bewitching consort and the most talented empress. The way she has been judged and defined throughout her life has changed many times, but that has never diminished her status or the value of studying her. [System + Raising Kids + Relentless Competition] Thanks to being well fed at home, Qi Jiao was plump and rosy-cheeked. After a flood, she was sold into the palace as a maid, and when she got a little older, she was assigned to the empress’s palace. A few years lat 12.5kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
  26. 176 After Fleeing the Chaotic Era, I Became the Founding Empress 乱世逃亡后,我成了开国女帝 Ancient Romance4.1M WordsCompleted [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 93.2kReads9.4Score12.8kShelves
  27. 177 Tales of the Yi Residence in the Qing Palace 清宫之怡府旧事 Ancient Romance592k WordsCompleted [A slow, steady romance] A few warnings up front: The main characters do not transmigrate or get reborn, and there is no System. Neither the female lead nor the male lead has a perfect personality. This is a historically inspired story. Yinsiang is not portrayed as a chivalrous hero. The romance unfolds slowly and steadily. Also, many historical records about Yinsiang have yet to be uncovered, because the Qing dynasty archives are too extensive and complicated. So if you ask, the answer is that 497Reads8.1Score—Shelves
  28. 178 Since I've Transmigrated into the Qing Dynasty, Why Not Boldly Choose Kangxi? 都清穿了,不妨大胆点选康熙啊! Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted On the first day Shi Nanxi transmigrates into the Qing Dynasty, she learns that her elder legitimate sister, Shi Rongyue, is also a transmigrator. Shi Rongyue wants to escape her future as the Crown Princess, so she approaches Nanxi and offers to let her marry the Crown Prince while she marries the Fourth Prince. Anyone who transmigrates into the Qing Dynasty knows the history. The Crown Prince’s later years are miserable. Though the Fourth Prince eventually wins, he is only thirteen now and wil 18.3kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
  29. 179 The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了 Ancient Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of 125.4kReads9.6Score17kShelves
  30. 180 The Professional Ethics of a Concubine 为妾的职业操守 Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Main Story Complete] Ye Qingzhi, an overworked office drone, transmigrates into the body of a concubine in the Jiangyang Marquis’s household. Since she’s here, she might as well go crazy. Being a concubine is just changing workplaces. She doesn’t need to get emotionally involved. She can simply treat herself like a tool. Ye Qingzhi’s career goal: convince both the marquis and the principal wife to take responsibility for her and protect her. Ye Qingzhi’s workplace motto: Life is short. We’re al 31.5kReads9.4Score3.7kShelves
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  31. 181 After I Transmigrated into a Book, Five Villainous Senior Brothers Doted on Me 穿书后我被五位反派师兄团宠了 Ancient Romance500k WordsCompleted [One devoted couple + transmigrated into a book + everyone’s favorite + farming + sweet romance] Gu Wanwan transmigrates into a book as the female disciple of a powerful cultivator from a mysterious sect. The catch is, she’s also a wicked, doomed supporting character. To survive until the ending, she decides to cling to her five villainous senior brothers and become a lovable bootlicker! Gradually, the five brothers realize their junior sister has changed. She’s now timid and cries at the drop o 165Reads8.8Score100Shelves
  32. 182 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 Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [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 64.8kReads9.4Score8.5kShelves
  33. 183 I'm the Cannon Fodder Villainess. So What If I Give Up? 我,炮灰女配,摆烂怎么了! Ancient Romance1.8M WordsCompleted Sheng Xi transmigrates into a novel about a heroine adored by everyone, becoming a cannon-fodder supporting character whose only purpose is to serve as a stepping stone for the beloved heroine! Faced with a deadly start, Sheng Xi wisely backs down and heads down the mountain in the middle of the night to find a new sect where she can lie flat. Hmph. Whoever wants to be a stepping stone can do it themselves. Her new sect has simple relationships and no performance reviews. Every one of her se 13.7kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
  34. 184 My Junior Sister Has a Real Talent for Stirring Up Trouble! 小师妹她整活儿天赋超强! Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Complete, no CP, strong heroine, versatile, overpowered] After being reborn through transmigration into a book, Chen Ling kicked her former sect to the curb and turned around to become the disciple of her former master’s archenemy. After she changed sects Her former master looked back and thought: What! That seemingly ordinary little disciple with no talent can draw spirit talismans, create formations, refine pills, and tame spirit beasts? She keeps stumbling into all kinds of lucky encounters 6.4kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
  35. 185 The Whole Sect Is Full of Crazy Villains, Only the Junior Sister Is a Goofball 满门反派疯批,唯有师妹逗比 Ancient Romance3.5M WordsCompleted After transmigrating into a book, Ye Linglong becomes the vicious cannon-fodder villainess in a cultivation novel. With terrible aptitude, she even coerces the heroine into taking her into the top sect during the Cultivation Tournament. After joining, she opposes the heroine at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death. To enjoy a long, happy life, Ye Linglong immediately gives up on coercing the heroine and turns around to join the worst sect in the cultivation world. She’s done being th 251.1kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
  36. 186 Life Simulator: I'm a Pro at Rising Through Palace Schemes 人生模拟器:宫斗升职我专业 Ancient Romance429k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Palace Intrigue + System + Golden Finger + A Story That's 30% Indulgence and 70% Playing It Safe] (Important, important, important!!! Content warning: The heroine is an ordinary person who grows over time. At first, she has some girlish romantic notions; she isn't highly intelligent from the start. Not a mutually exclusive first-love story, and the male lead doesn't dote on her alone. Don't read if these bother you.) From the start, she's in the hardest difficulty mode. After s 7.1kReads9.1Score693Shelves
  37. 187 After Marrying My Childhood Friend's Cousin, My Husband Fights the Inner-Residence Battles for Me 嫁给竹马表哥后,夫君替我去宅斗 Ancient Romance234k WordsCompleted [Traditional historical romance + childhood sweethearts + married from the start + lighthearted, sweet romance] Gentle, clever official’s daughter VS domineering, calculating merchant’s son Shen Tang, daughter of a low-ranking official, marries her stepmother’s nephew, her childhood sweetheart and cousin, Qi Huaijing. With their families’ unequal status, an unkind mother-in-law, powerful half-brothers, and a young cousin in the capital who was once considered as a match for him, Shen Tang prepar 19.9kReads9.2Score2.4kShelves
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  38. 188 One Tear from the Empress, and She Acts Her Way to the Emperor's Throne 娘娘一滴泪,演到帝王送凤位 Ancient Romance589k WordsCompleted [Story complete; easy to get around] Shen Qingfu transmigrated into a rebirth novel. The reborn heroine, Chu Can, had grown up with the crown prince, Ning Xuanli, as his childhood sweetheart. Given a second chance at life, she wanted no love, only power and riches. To become the most special person in the crown prince’s heart, she played hard to get. She had schemes, but no feelings. Shen Qingfu was nothing more than the most insignificant cannon fodder in the rebirth novel. Shen Qingfu gave a s 303Reads9.1Score—Shelves
  39. 189 The Palace Maid Schemed to Seduce Him, and the Mad Emperor Fell for Her and Seized Her by Force 宫女蓄意勾引,疯批帝王沦陷强夺 Ancient Romance210k WordsOngoing [Palace intrigue, not a virginal couple / villainess / femme fatale / forced possession / doted on exclusively after the opening] [Scheming, theatrical maid vs. deranged emperor who falls deeper with every step] Yao Shu was born beautiful, and the empress chose her as a pawn to send to the emperor. The first time she met Xiao Xulan, she was too frightened to look him in the eye. But when he began to consider taking her to his bed, she broke free of his grasp and knelt down, declaring, “This serv 260Reads9.3Score—Shelves
  40. 190 They Forced Me into a Marriage That Would Kill Me, but I'll Claim the First Wife's Seat 换亲让我死,我偏稳坐主母位 Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Adapted into a short drama: The Matriarch Just Wants to Slacken Off, but Goes on a Rampage in the Marquis’s Household After Being Reborn Jiang Shuwan and her legitimate younger sister, Jiang Yao, are both reborn. In their previous lives, both she and Jiang Yao were transmigrators. A workaholic who earned more money than she could spend, Shuwan worked herself to death. In this life, she’s determined to slack off. Jiang Yao is ambitious. She makes a name for herself by plagiarizing poems while sec 970Reads8.2Score101Shelves
  41. 191 Reborn Evil Matriarch Swapped into a Marriage and Wreaks Havoc in the Marquis's Household 恶人主母重生被换婚在侯府杀疯了 Ancient Romance282k WordsCompleted [Palace and Household Intrigue + No Male Lead + Fictional Dynasty + Reborn to Crush Her Enemies + Bread, Not Romance] Chen Wu was the fake legitimate daughter, switched into the Chen family by mistake. When the real daughter, Chen Qingjiao, was brought home by their parents, she stole Chen Wu’s fiancé. Chen Wu didn’t fight back. She married a soldier and willingly followed him to the frontier. In the end, after her husband regained his true identity, he wanted her dead for the sake of his childh 504Reads8.9Score106Shelves
  42. 192 Five Years of Waiting Came to Nothing: My Husband Brings His New Love to Demand a Divorce 五年痴等成空,夫君带女逼我和离 Ancient Romance604k WordsCompleted [Both Chaste] [Romance with His Older Brother's Wife] [Male-Male Story] [The Male Lead is repeatedly seen completely naked but stays faithful. Later, what looks like infidelity is actually a guard in disguise; the male lead remains devoted to the female lead throughout.] [Dear readers, we're very sorry! When you reach Chapter 139, please skip straight to Chapter 146. Chapters 140 to 145 are inconsistent and can be ignored.] On their wedding night, unrest broke out at the border, and her husband 5.8kReads9.3Score434Shelves
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  43. 193 The Stunning Legitimate Daughter: Stay Away, White Lotus 嫡女倾城,白莲花别沾边 Ancient Romance360k WordsOngoing [I am Zhao Xiyun, the legitimate eldest daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's household. Ever since I was little, everyone has adored me, and I was betrothed to the Third Prince.] Everyone thought I would become the Third Prince's consort. But who would have thought that a dignified prince would willingly trail after me like a puppy? And my dear younger sister is nothing but a scheming white lotus. You already have the Third Prince. Don't frame me! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  44. 194 Willows in the Wind 风中柳 Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Ruthless heroine➕female-lead power fantasy➕light ensemble-style palace intrigue➕face-slapping and scum-bashing➕primarily focused on building her career] (Female lead is a virgin; male lead is not) Jiang Fu, the Jiang family’s fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter, was lovely and graceful. Unfortunately, her stepmother was cruel and her father was heartless. As an illegitimate daughter, she had no say even in the marriage that mattered most to a woman. Her family could manipulate her as they p 2.1kReads8.8Score292Shelves
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  47. 197 Qing Dynasty Crossover: When a Femme Fatale Becomes a Cannon Fodder 综清穿:当祸水穿成炮灰后 Ancient Romance536k WordsCompleted [This story is complete. The new story, The Frail, Bewitching Favorite with the Cannon-Fodder Heroine’s Script, is now underway.] [Everyone’s darling + alternate history + System + wish fulfillment + romantic rival showdown. This is not a pure Qing Dynasty story, and history will change!!!] After dying as Zhao Hede, beloved consort of Emperor Cheng of Han, she entered the Quick Transmigration Bureau and made deals with figures from history in hopes of bringing her elder sister back to life. Worl 16.3kReads9.3Score968Shelves
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  49. 199 The Little Taoist Nun Has a Rebellious Streak 小道姑一身反骨 Ancient Romance747k WordsCompleted “As a hired assassin, killing is my specialty. I make sure my clients go peacefully.” “Be good. You don't need to cover your head. I'd never ruin that pretty face of yours. That would make it harder to carry your head to the Judicial Office and collect the reward.” The moon slanted over the river as night settled in. Mist hung thick in the air, dreamlike and hazy. Only the dim oil lamp hanging from a covered boat on the Qiantang River cast a faint, wavering glow. A small gray-robed Taoist, impos 24.2kReads9.5Score3.6kShelves
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