Looking for Stories with a Strong Female Lead Who Isn’t a Doormat 有没有女主强大、不圣母的文呐
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Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人？不如成全自己
In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her.
143.5kReads9.5Score10.7kShelves
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After a Mad NPC Set Its Sights on Me, I Took Control 被疯批NPC盯上后，我直接拿捏
[Female lead grows over time] [Male lead is thoroughly rotten] [One-and-only relationships] [Games include survival, horror, and rule-based mysteries…] A strange bus travels through time and space, crossing into another dimension… Jiang Song never imagined that her life as an overworked office drone would end on the day she finally clocked out. To survive the terrifying games, she must complete every mission without making a single mistake. The games are already perilous, but then an NPC s
36.5kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves
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Establishing a Women's Household: Taking a Son-in-Law and Having Three Boys and a Girl 立女户：招个赘婿生三儿一女
[Traditional historical romance, no golden finger + revenge on scumbags + mutual devotion after marriage] After her cousin stole her betrothed, Jingshu fought back with all her might and established an independent household. She divided the family property, bought a house and farmland, then took in a handsome young husband with clear, bright eyes. After marriage, all three sons and their daughter took her surname. No worries about a mother-in-law, and her own mother lived right by her side. Her
6.2kReads9.1Score734Shelves
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The Fearless Girl 霸气少女
The retired soldier Xiao Yuanjing and his wife were hardworking and simple folk. They had only one daughter and could not bear to see her marry and leave, so they took on a long-term laborer, Tang Jin, as their son-in-law. Tang Jin was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He became addicted to gambling, drove his father-in-law to his death, and sold his daughter. In the end, he was sent to prison. Xiao Qingqing and Tang Jin’s daughter was named Xiao Qianchi. She was obedient and sensible from a young age
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She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反
[Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and
145.1kReads9.5Score18.2kShelves
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The Crown of the Dark Moon 黑月光冠冕
[The first print volume is now available] [Sweet Romance in a Wealthy Family] + [A Forbidden Love Falls from Its Pedestal] + [Characters Awaken] + [A Chaotic Love Rival Showdown] “You are a cannon-fodder character in this world. Your character tags are: beautiful, vicious, and stupid. When you were eight, you were adopted by the Shen family, the most powerful family in Whale Harbor. The head of the family treasured you like a gem, but you joined forces with your villainous mother to scheme agai
586.8kReads9.5Score99.8kShelves
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Global Zombie Outbreak: The Evil Seeds Descend 全球尸变，恶种降临
[Apocalypse + Survival + Zombies + Human Nature + Powerful Male and Female Leads] When he wakes up, the entire world has been struck by a bizarre virus. Everyone infected turns into a highly intelligent killing monster. The once-bustling campus instantly becomes a living hell. Here, honesty, friendship, kindness, and everything else have ceased to exist. He only wanted to lie low and survive, but from the start he is locked in a room full of monsters. He thinks certain death is inevitable, but u
14.8kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
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Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批
The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou
239.2kReads9.7Score27.2kShelves
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Begging for Love 求娇
[Strong Heroine and Hero] [Love-Hate Relationship] [Defying Fate] [Print edition signed with a publisher] Gu Miaoyin always thought she was the pampered darling her emperor treasured most, until the Great Jin fell and the Northern Hu cavalry smashed through the palace gates. Only then did she realize how tragic her life was. Ten years of the emperor's favor could not withstand a sudden change of heart. In the end, she and her mother were trapped in the imperial city and burned alive. Reborn into
63.4kReads9.5Score9.1kShelves
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Two Lives of Joy: The Duke's Legitimate Daughter Is Truly Unrestrained 两世欢：公府嫡女她是真的狂
(Rebirth power fantasy + married across two lifetimes + palace and household intrigue + political machinations) Ye Liujin once thought she was the happiest young lady in Shengjing. Her aunt was just one step away from becoming empress. Her elder brother was the illustrious Duke of Shanguo, commanding an army of two hundred thousand, while her elder sister was a brave and battle-hardened warrior admired by all, both in court and beyond. She herself had been betrothed in infancy to the Third Princ
19.6kReads9.0Score11.8kShelves
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The Source God Realm's Youngest Genius Commander 源神界第一天才统兵师
[Fantasy + Strong Female Lead + No Romance + Genius] After Xie Rong gets her killed, Liu Xinhan wakes up reborn with him in another world. This time, she refuses to hold back. First, she kills her father on the spot for selling his daughter for personal gain, then reveals her hidden strength and joins forces to surround and kill Xie Rong... Her enemy from her past life: “Liu Xinhan, you followed Xie Rong and committed countless evils, killing my brothers. Today, I will make you pay in blood!” Le
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What Do I Do? I Can't Get Away, and My Wife Is a Sickly Yandere 怎么办，逃不掉，媳妇是个小病娇
[Yandere romance, period setting, devoted to one another, military marriage] A future research genius who lost faith in humanity and set out to destroy the world is reborn as a fool in the 1970s. She meets a soldier who has also been treated unfairly, yet remains warm and sunny.
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