Looking for Know My Value, Know Your Worth Fanfiction with an Original Female Lead 📚 求知否，知否原创女主的书📚
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Bound by Spring 缚春情
[The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef
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Do You Know: Gu Tingyu’s Struggle 知否：顾廷煜的奋斗
After transmigrating into The Story of Minglan, I became Gu Tingyu, the sickly young master of the Ningyuan Marquis Manor. Luckily, the story hasn’t begun yet. Watch me change my fate and secure my mother’s position as the marquis’s wife. It turns out this world also blends in stories like Water Margin and Dream of the Red Chamber. Interesting! Watch me become Zhou Tong’s disciple and a sworn junior fellow student of Lu Junyi and Shi Wengong, sit the imperial exams and rank second in the palace
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Story of Minglan: Becoming the Sheng Family’s Son-in-Law 知否：从盛府女婿开始
He transmigrates into the world of The Story of Minglan as a poor scholar, marries Sheng Shulan, the beloved daughter of the Sheng family, and works hard at the imperial examinations until he finally earns a place on the honor roll. As the plot of The Story of Minglan intertwines with the realities of court politics, watch him rely on memories of his previous life to overcome one obstacle after another, rise from a poor scholar to a powerful court official, command the winds of change, marry a b
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Delicate Bones 娇骨
[Print edition preorder opens July 17] [Film and TV rights sold] [Reader's guide: sweet romance, devoted couple, feel-good wish fulfillment, with clever schemes and political intrigue, many clues and details, and a large cast of well-developed characters. The heroine never gets the short end of the stick; anything that doesn't make sense will be explained later] Prince Xuan, He Junting. In the novel Devoted to the Imperial Consort, the author wrote of how he slaughtered the entire Northern Di co
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The Madam Takes Charge: No More Lounging, Get Up and Get to Work! 夫人当家：都别躺，给我起来卷！
[Transmigration to an alternate world + wish fulfillment + sweet romance + one-on-one + two strong leads] Xia Shuyan is a noblewoman of the capital, blessed with beauty, intelligence, and an illustrious family. To protect her family from the impending struggle for the throne, she arranges to marry General Xiao Yunchi, a man rumored to bring death to his wives. Xiao Yunchi is the second legitimate son of the Grand Princess and the old Marquis of Zhenbei, as well as the emperor’s nephew. He has sp
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The Tofu Seller's Daily Life as Head of the Household 豆腐娘子的掌家日常
[Everyday Street Life]+ [Family Matters]+ [Daily Life]+ [Farming and Business] P.S. No golden finger. The female lead was transmigrated into a body before birth. Content warning: The leads are not each other's firsts. If that bothers you, don't read! A tall, strapping prison clerk and a fair-skinned, beautiful tofu seller with a fiery temper. One is domineering and uninhibited, while the other seems delicate but is actually covered in thorns. See how this ordinary family fights hard to carve out
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Who Starts Farming by Sending Three Piglets as a Gift? 种田谁家男主开局送礼送三只猪崽
Completed. Dive in without worry! (Farming + No golden finger + Family life + Romance + Building a fortune + Cozy + No awful characters) No System! No pocket dimension!! No golden finger!!! No awful characters!!!! (We’ve said it three times because it’s important. The male lead appears late. The story focuses on building a career, with romance as a side plot x3.) Baihua Cave is a village deep in the mountains, home to nearly a hundred households. Everyone says it’s a poor and remote backwater. S
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The General's Wife Only Wants to Farm 将军夫人一心想种田
A farming story turned into an educational account of Zhao Kuangyin, founding emperor of the Early Song. This melon is so drunk. Apart from the protagonist's family and relatives, who are fictional, most of the people in the story are real. Even the personalities of minor soldiers, as well as the characters, events, and policies, are all documented in official histories. For sources, see the Song History on Hancheng.net. Historical fact-checkers welcome. A few caveats before you dive in: First,
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Wild Desire! The Powerful Tycoon Kisses His Little Wife Until She Cries 野欲！小娇妻被强权大佬亲哭了
[🔥Power Above All: A Ruthless, Rotten Heir to a Foreign Throne x 🌸 A Sweet-Talking, Delicate Little Fairy] [Supreme Control + A False Gentleman, a True Lunatic + Height and Build Contrast with Sexual Tension + High Libido and Coercive Love] An incarnation of a god, worshipped by madmen. His honorific: Evil Spirit. A man with a honeyed tongue and a venomous heart, his features rough, roguish, and cruel, enough to make anyone's heart skip a beat. Chen Zhi is a pretty little fairy, blessed with a f
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Three Feet of Spring 三尺春【王嘉懋、李十七主演 短剧同名原著小说热播中！！！】
The captivating beauty Li Shuwan, whose background is shrouded in mystery × the aloof, proud General Li Fengyuan, hard-mouthed but soft-hearted Ancient romance + premium novel + one-on-one romance + both leads' first love + sweet romance + mutual devotion + palace intrigue + simmering tension + secret crush + age gap + reunion after years apart When she was seven, Li Shuwan was brought back from the countryside to the General's Mansion, becoming Li Fengyuan's relative in name only. Knowing her
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Irresistible Temptation: The Emperor's Beloved 绝世诱惑：帝王的掌心娇
[Not a pure couple; he dotes on her exclusively later on; a little palace intrigue; the heroine is a master flirt; story complete] She transmigrated from the modern world. Quirky and clever, she was also a brilliant actress. Emperor Shengwu could govern with effortless command, bring peace and stability to the realm, and win battles from a thousand miles away, striking fear across the four seas. He was an emperor who held all power in his hands and ruled over all beneath the heavens. Yun Mengq
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The Male-Oriented Novel's Emperor Is So Heartless? But I'm His White Moonlight 男频帝王太无情？可我是他白月光
[Transmigrate into a book, revenge, scheming, stunning heroine, seductive mastermind] The short drama His Heart on a String is now streaming! Shen Yuling transmigrated into a romance novel as its heroine. Unfortunately, she was a heroine whose luck had been stolen by a woman who transmigrated into the story. She would die in a fire, taking her unborn child with her, while her entire family would be wiped out. It was a fate the original heroine had failed to change, even after being reborn twice
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Draw a Talisman, Tell a Fortune, Then Marry a Prince 画个符，算个命，再嫁个王爷
The emperor is choosing a bride for the leg-disabled Ninth Prince, and the children of powerful families are all scrambling to stay out of the running. But Xie Nuan, the second legitimate granddaughter of the Xie family, a recently returned rural girl whose grandfather is the Director of the Imperial Academy, volunteers herself! “Your Majesty, your humble subject is willing to marry the Ninth Prince!” The emperor: “Oh? Why are you willing?” Xie Nuan: “Because the Ninth Prince and I are destined
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Story of Minglan: Marrying Hualan 知否：迎娶华兰
A derivative of The Story of Minglan + the Imperial City Bureau + daily life + one heroine + rise to marquis and chancellor. Xu Chun transmigrates to the Song Empire, becoming a distant relative from a collateral branch who depends on the Marquis of Yongyi’s household for a living. He gives up the civil service examination and devotes himself to the law, setting his sights on the Imperial City Bureau. Bianjing’s splendor stretches long beneath the Song’s elegant charm; lanterns along the imperia
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A Drunken Nighttime Kiss! One Flirt from Her, and the Arrogant Big Shot’s Heart Races 醉吻夜！她一撩，桀骜大佬心狂跳
[The print edition of Climbing the Capital’s Family Tree is now available on all platforms.] [Top Capital City Tycoon · Rebellious, Devoted Suit-Wearing Bad Boy vs. Ballet Princess · Radiant, Proud Little Swan] Li Zhi and Fu Yanze grew up together, but Li Zhi turned out to be the fake heiress. For the sake of his own interests, Fu Yanze chose to get engaged to the real heiress, a leading actress in the entertainment industry. He hoped Li Zhi would understand and said he would come back to marr
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I Married the Wrong Man in My Last Life, So This Time I'll Choose Someone Else 上辈子嫁错了，这辈子换人嫁
[Reborn and Swapping Marriages + Revenge on Scumbags + Household Rivalry Between Legitimate and Concubine-Born Daughters + Satisfying Political Intrigue] The moment Tang Wanru opens her eyes, she is reborn on the day the heir of the marquis’s household proposes to her! In her previous life, the marquis’s household was convicted and exiled. Tang Wanru stood by the heir, Zhou Ziyue, through thick and thin in the desert for eight years, never leaving his side. But as she lay gravely ill and dying,
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Know No More: My Grandfather Is Sheng Changbai 知否之我的祖父是盛长柏
[Woman disguises herself as a man, imperial examinations, political struggles, family legacy, no romance] A disastrous start: a female university student from the twenty-first century transmigrates into the world of The Story of Minglan and becomes the posthumous daughter of a widow. She thinks she’s in for a cozy story about a modestly comfortable life and farming, but it turns out to be a tale of a woman disguised as a man taking the imperial examinations. She thinks it couldn’t get any more o
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Imperial Exam Triumph: The Strongest Female Grand Secretary 科举逆袭：最强女首辅
After finally becoming the first female heir in her family, she opens her eyes and finds herself back before the revolution. Her father is dead from the start, leaving her with a frail mother and three beautiful older sisters. She is the only son who can carry on the Cheng family line... Cheng Qing looks down at her slightly developed chest, wondering what on earth went wrong. Surrounded by scheming wolves, Cheng Qing, now with a new soul in her body, sets herself two small goals: First, keep pr
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Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣
Her parents died young, her family was poor, and she was plain-looking. Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a terrible hand, but after nearly twenty years of hard work, she became an executive at a multinational corporation and finally put her life back on track... Then she wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1980s, as another Xia Xiaolan, this time with a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. The original Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a winning hand, but chose to take her own life under the pressu
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All Male Cultivators Are Fleeting Clouds 天下男修皆浮云
After transmigrating, Shi Qiu becomes a tempting morsel in the eyes of male cultivators, with everyone wanting a bite. Even with her naturally gifted spiritual bones, all the men in the world are beneath her notice.
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The Black Phoenix Queen 黑凰后
She is a goddess sent from heaven, the eldest princess of the Shen Kingdom. But someone stole her divine fortune, and she was abandoned in the Sacred River. They say she won't live to see her fifteenth birthday. She says, “My fate is mine to decide, not Heaven's. Give me back the fortune you stole, and repay the life you owe me.” She has been a bandit and an empress, and in the end, she ascends to the throne. He says, “In my heart, you matter more than Buddha. All the gods and Buddhas in heaven
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I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生
I'm hard to kill. These were the words I heard from the moment I was born. A blind fortune-teller said I was a White Tiger Sha, a girl born with a boy's fate, innately tough and destined to bring misfortune to my husband, my children, and myself. Everyone in the village said I wouldn't survive. My yang energy was too strong. Even if they managed to keep me alive, I'd grow up to be an idiot. But my grandma, a spirit medium who presided over the altar, refused to give up. Every year, she burned a
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After Transmigrating into a Villainess, the Male Leads Eavesdrop on My Thoughts 穿成恶毒女配后被男主们偷听心声
(A comic adaptation of the same name is now available) After transmigrating into a book as a wicked villainess, she gets a System that makes her stronger whenever she roasts the plot. At first, all she has to do is make casual comments about the story, collect rewards, and play the wicked supporting villainess until the plot ends without a hitch. She never expected the male leads to unlock their own storylines, one by one abandoning their original characterizations and sending the plot wildly of
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I Became a Villainous Eunuch and Won the World Over with My Goofy Antics 穿成反派太监，靠沙雕被天下争抢
[Goofy Little Eunuch × Long-Suffering Emperor] Mutually Exclusive Romance Yue Fuling transmigrates into the body of a little eunuch, but secretly she is an assassin tasked with killing the emperor. The emperor can even possess her, and has learned all her secrets. This book is also known as: Everyone knows she’s an assassin except her. Yue Fuling panics and packs up to flee in the middle of the night. Halfway through, flames blaze behind her as several groups of pursuers race after her. Yue Fuli
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The Consort Is Beautiful and Sweet, and the Cold, Cruel Emperor Dotes on Her Without Restraint 贵妃美艳娇软，冷戾帝王宠溺无度
[Harem intrigue + climbing the ranks and crushing the villains + doting romance. The male lead knows his own heart. He'll devote himself to her alone later on.] [The heroine rises through the ranks quickly at first, then more slowly later on.] [The heroine comes from a noble family, is the most beautiful woman in the harem, and already has two adorable children. The Emperor falls for her first and favors her from early on, before devoting himself to her alone in the middle and later parts.] By a
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After the Regent Was Reborn, His Shadow Guard Wants to Kill Him Every Day! 摄政王重生后，影卫每天想弑主！
[Two male leads + Reborn + devoted to each other + regent king x shadow guard + sweet romance] He was the regent of the Kingdom of Yanchi. In his previous life, countless people hunted him down until he was killed, and the only person who protected him to the end also died before his eyes. That person was Ying Yu, the shadow guard who had followed him for more than ten years. Before Ying Yu died, he finally understood the look in his eyes... When he was reborn, Ying Yu was still by his side... S
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Spring Robes in Disarray: Only to Unravel the Chancellor's Desires 春衫乱：只为奸臣解风情
[Traditional historical romance + reborn to change fate + devoted husband + political intrigue and revenge. The heroine is gentle yet resilient, kind and perceptive. The hero is a noble, powerful minister, beautiful and tragic. Many foreshadowed clues and twists.] Lin Shu was a noble young lady from the capital, raised without ever having to lift a finger. When disaster struck the Lin family, Lin Shu became a government slave. She was put to washing and dyeing cloth in the Imperial Household Dep
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Wise Men Avoid Love, and the Noble Consort Wants No Responsibility 智者不入爱河，贵妃不想负责
Being a beggar would be better than being in the harem. Shen Qing is despairing over her current identity. The female lead won't appear for another two years, and Shen Qing is the lowest-ranking consort in the male lead's harem. Her father is useless, and she has neither money nor power. It seems her only option is to wait for the emperor's favor. To make matters worse, she has a face that attracts trouble. If she fights for influence, she has no leverage; if she doesn't, she'll just get bullied
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My Husband Wants a Divorce While I'm Pregnant? Fine, Whatever You Want! 孕期夫君要和离？随你都随你！
Shu Yuwan is the youngest legitimate daughter in her family. Her parents and elder brothers have cherished her since childhood, and her mother carefully chose a distinguished young gentleman from the capital to be her husband. After their wedding, the couple may not have been inseparable, but they treated each other with mutual respect. But while she was pregnant, her husband claimed he had met an extraordinary woman who had left him awestruck. He wanted a divorce so he could marry her. Shu Yuwa
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The Chaos of Zhaohua 昭华乱
[This novel has been contracted for publication] [Strong female lead + high-IQ palace intrigue + heroine schemes against the entire harem + psychotic villain personality] Song Zhao has always been a woman who stops at nothing to achieve her goals, and she is also more clear-headed than anyone. From the moment she learned that Xiao Jingheng had chosen her to enter the palace as a consort, her goal was perfectly clear: “I’m entering the palace to become Empress. Otherwise, what would I go there fo
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The Youngest Daughter, Changle 幺女长乐
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!
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Beauty and Strategy in a Land of Rivers and Mountains 山河美人谋
[Proud young lady who always gets even vs. frail, scheming Ninth Prince] Her fiancé was a total jerk, and he was planning to kill her to keep her quiet. Ye Jiao decided to strike first and find a scapegoat while she was at it. She thought the scapegoat would be a transparent, sickly “living corpse,” but rumors were misleading. He was clearly a two-faced, deeply cunning Ninth Prince. After Ye Jiao used the Ninth Prince’s name to punish her scumbag fiancé, Li Ce, the real Ninth Prince: “Miss, I be
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Beauty’s Bones 美人骨
A hero's tender embrace, a beauty's burial place. Even if she has to crawl, she'll survive in this merciless place and make him her devoted admirer!
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Marry a Powerful Official and Become a Widow? The Transmigrate-Into-a-Book Side Character Won’t Stand for It! 嫁权臣守活寡？穿书女配不干了！
[Transmigrate into a book + everyone’s favorite + devoted couple + putting scumbags in their place + no mistresses or misunderstandings + everyone speaks their mind] Jiang Yuzhu transmigrated into a book, becoming the ill-fated first wife of Xie Zhao, the male lead of A Great Chancellor. From the start, she was handed a disaster: the original Jiang Yuzhu was on her way to have an affair, set up by her own eldest brother. According to the original story, after sleeping with a scumbag, Jiang Yuzhu
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Seizing Her by Force, the Mad Crown Prince Coaxes and Spoils Her Shamelessly 强取豪夺，疯批太子诱哄放肆宠
[Devoted romance + both leads go mad later on + both are each other’s only one + happy ending + sweet romance] Prince Xiao Cang is rumored to be gentle and perfect. His only flaw is that he never shows interest in women, leading some to suspect he prefers men. Only He Yuqing knows just how mad he is! He doesn’t care that she is a concubine in the Marquis’s household. He comes to her late at night and kisses her fiercely, fingers digging into her flesh. For her, he casts aside every gentle preten
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Peach Blossoms Topple the River and Mountains 桃花折江山
The TV drama Peach Blossoms Reflecting on the Mountains and Rivers, starring Liu Xueyi and Meng Ziyi. Zhao has a beauty named Taohua. Her fate is full of hardship, and she is married off to Wei far away. All she wants is to stay alive and climb her way up. Wei has a handsome chancellor who is ruthless and sharp-tongued, sweet on the surface but treacherous within. He cares nothing for anyone's life, so long as he gets what he wants. Taohua thinks everyone loves beautiful things. Surely he can't
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With My Reborn Son's High-Stakes Schemes, Becoming Empress Dowager Is No Dream 重生儿子手段高，晋升太后不是梦
[Fictional Imperial Harem Drama + No Romance + Giving Birth and Raising Kids + My Son Must Be Crown Prince + Ambitious + Clear-Eyed] Content warning: The romance isn’t mutually exclusive, she doesn’t love the male lead, and there are painful, heartbreaking parts. The male lead is a scumbag emperor. Song Yuyan was hooked on a palace-harem management game. She never expected to open her eyes and find she had transmigrated to ancient times. After keeping a low profile for three years, she entered t
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Bullying the Original Host? I'll Scatter Your Ashes! 欺我原主？骨灰都给你扬喽
[Quick transmigration + wish fulfillment + System + punishing scumbags + no romance + strong female lead + face-slapping] System: “Host, why were you sealed away before?” Lan Yin: “Oh, I devoured some evil spirits from the Underworld.” System: “H-how... how many?” Lan Yin: “Hm? Not many, just a few billion.” System: “...What kind of deity did you say you were?” Lan Yin: “The God of the Underworld.” System: This is completely out of hand, folks! My Host is a total lunatic! (Warning: Includes orig
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Ninefold Brocade 九重锦
Household and palace intrigue, with the leads not both being each other's first. A fictional setting, with all ranks and titles made up. A heroine who grows over time and isn't blinded by love. After being suppressed for more than a decade, a concubine-born daughter has her fate rearranged overnight. Entering the prince's manor only fuels her ambition. Her birth father ignores her, allowing her stepmother to torment her and her mother for half their lives without ever offering them the slightest
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Reborn as a Noble Consort, With Little Time Left to Live 穿成贵妃，命不久矣
[Both leads are each other’s one and only, 1v1 happy ending, unhinged tyrant x scheming black-lotus, unlucky consort] Song Ru becomes a noble consort. On top of working 996, her life is tied to the tyrant’s fortune, so every bad thing he does comes back to haunt her. The tyrant makes sport of his ministers, and Song Ru trips on level ground and splits her head open. The tyrant indulges in bedroom pleasures, and a bolt of purple lightning from the sky nearly strikes Song Ru dead. The tyrant k
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Right or Wrong, One to Six 对错一比六
A unique era and extraordinary experiences shaped the main character Xiao Jiu's distinctive personality, way of thinking, and outlook on life. His views on many things differ from those of ordinary people, but he is no rebel against convention. His ideas about love and marriage are especially original: clear-eyed, perceptive, and above the ordinary. Reality often plays tricks on our ideals. Though Xiao Jiu is principled and upright, he still faces conflicts between morality and kindness, law and
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I Transmigrated into The Story of Minglan and Became the Maid Xiaotao 穿越知否之我竟成了丫鬟小桃
The moment she opens her eyes, an overworked internet-company employee who lived and breathed the grind has transmigrated into Knowings, as Xiaotao, the simple-minded maid serving Sheng Minglan. Seeing the plot about to reach the tragic point where Lady Wei and her unborn child will both die, she smiles. With top-tier workplace survival skills and a guide to the entire plot, how could she let the people around her suffer any more? [Save Mother Wei, protect the little brother, and take down Lin
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Where Qingyun Meets 卿云见
Just after she transmigrates, her husband nearly destroys her body to cover up his crime. After barely escaping with her life, she finds that the one who helped her was her husband's younger brother. Is it a political scheme or a transaction? Each takes what they need and relies on their own abilities. How can she carve out a life of her own in this world?
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The Tale of Nan Xin 南心记
He does everything he can to avoid marrying her, while she plots every which way to wed him. He wants her dead, but she fights to survive in the cracks like a resilient blade of grass. He sees through everything, yet still lets her slowly take root in his heart, where she lingers, impossible to forget and impossible to resist…
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The Story of Minglan: A Concubine's Daughter with No Romantic Delusions, Ruling the Inner Court 知否：庶女不恋爱脑，宅斗当大佬
Know This? Know This? It Should Be Green, Plump Leaves and Red, Slender Blossoms During the Northern Song dynasty, Minglan, the illegitimate daughter of the Sheng family, lost her mother at a young age. Her wet nurse Wei’s plans on her deathbed, and her emphasis on “survival,” became principles etched into Minglan’s very bones. Living under her grandmother’s protection, she concealed her intelligence and kept her talents under wraps. While doing embroidery and managing the household, she quietl
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Know No More: The Green Grows Lush, the Red Fades Away 知否？知否？应是绿肥红瘦
Synopsis of The Story of Minglan In the Northern Song dynasty, Sheng Minglan, the illegitimate daughter of the Sheng family, loses her mother, Wei Xiaoniang, when a favored concubine, Lin Qinshuang, schemes against her and causes a fatal labor. Her mother’s last words, “Staying alive matters most,” become Minglan’s guiding principle. Taken in and raised by Old Madam Sheng at Shou’an Hall, she learns from her grandmother to keep a low profile, endure, and establish herself by managing a househol
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As the Records of History Tell: The Complete Story of Minglan 知否青史载红妆：明兰全传
In The Story of Minglan, Minglan, an illegitimate daughter of the Sheng family, loses her mother as a child. In the depths of a grand household, she survives by staying cautious and concealing her talents, fortunate to have her grandmother’s protection and guidance, which teach her the wisdom to survive and the art of managing a household. After coming of age, she marries Gu Tingye, the Marquis of Ningyuan. From a new bride in the marquis’s household to the woman in charge of the family, she use
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Know No More: The Green Grows Lush, the Red Fades Away, Transmigration Edition 知否？知否？应是绿肥红瘦穿越版
The story follows Yao Yiyi, a modern-day clerk who transmigrates into the body of Sheng Minglan, a concubine-born daughter of the Sheng family. Armed with modern knowledge, she navigates the intricate schemes of a grand household ruled by strict hierarchies. From the first signs of danger surrounding Concubine Wei’s mysterious death to hiding her talents while studying at Shou’an Hall and outwitting Lin Qinshuang and her daughter, Minglan carefully plots each step, keeping a low profile and endu
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Transmigrated as a Cannon-Fodder Palace Maiden: I Ran Wild in Empresses in the Palace 穿成炮灰秀女，我在甄嬛传杀疯了
The Uncrowned Empress Dowager: The Legend of Shen Meiwan Lin Wei, a modern woman, unexpectedly transmigrated into the ancient imperial palace as Shen Meiwan, a doomed palace maid. From the start, she was trapped in a dead end in the Bureau of Palace Affairs. To protect herself, she relied on her foresight and ruthless schemes, carefully advancing through the palace’s deadly power struggles: secretly undermining allies to establish her footing, then forging alliances to eliminate formidable enem
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Do You Know? Do You Know? The Green Should Be Plump and the Red Lean 知否！知否！应是绿肥红瘦
The Story of Minglan: Her birth mother was murdered, her legal mother suppressed her, and her half-sister framed her! As Sheng Minglan, a concubine-born daughter trapped in a deep inner household, she had no golden finger or miraculous opportunity. She survived in the narrow cracks of a cruel family through her keen intelligence and unyielding spirit! While keeping a low profile and biding her time, she exposed embezzlement in the accounts and foiled a poison plot at a banquet, crushing those w
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