Any Novels With a Career-Driven Female Lead Who Focuses Entirely on Her Work? 有没有事业脑女主，女主一心搞事业的文啊
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Gu Qingyu's Cheat-Filled Life in a Period Novel 顾青玉在年代文里开挂的一生
[Period setting + strong female lead + career-focused plot + one-on-one romance + both leads devoted to each other + male lead appears late and doesn't get much page time] Gu Qingyu transmigrates into a period novel as an insignificant passerby. Sent back to her family's village as soon as she's born, she becomes a pitiful child no one wants after her parents divorce when she's three. But Gu Qingyu doesn't think she's pitiful at all. At three, she leads the village children in making money. At f
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In the 1970s, Both Studying and Cooking Can Bring Glory to the Nation 七零，读书与掌大勺都能为国争光
[Family Life, Slow-Burn Days, a Heroine Devoted to the Party and Her Career! No Romance, Scientific Research, Patriotism!] Her golden finger is an upgraded memory ability… Unlocking a memory palace! She transmigrates to the 1970s, just as the college entrance exams are reinstated. While everyone else studies hard for university, He Yangmiao transmigrates into the body of an elementary school student and has to start with “A, O, E” and “one plus one”… She scored only 208 on the modern college e
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Back to 1968: I Won't Be a Baby-Making Tool 回到1968：我不当送子工具人
[No CP] [Period] [Book Transmigration] [Women's awakening] [Political career] [Scientific research] [Pocket dimension] [No child-rearing] [Ensemble cast] [Reborn] Xie Yun, a modern orphan, returns to 1968 and becomes Xie Yun, a country girl raised by a widowed mother, with an exceptionally capable younger brother named Xie Shen. She discovers that she hasn't just transmigrated through time, she's also transmigrated into a book: a story about a stepmother raising children, where she is the first
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Want Her to Admit She Was Wrong? Miss Qiao’s White Moonlight Has Come to Her Rescue 要她认错？乔小姐的白月光杀来了
[No Rekindled Love + Everyone Faces the Consequences + A Black-and-White Power Player in the Making + A Rising Mogul] The day Qiao Xingye was born, the family's nanny abandoned her so her own daughter could live a better life. Eighteen years later, her family finds her, but there is no guilt or compensation waiting for her. Her fiancé betrays her, and her biological parents take the nanny's daughter's side. Qiao Xingye fights them tooth and nail, but they only go further and further. They cut of
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Reborn, Mrs. Jiang Only Wants to Build Her Career 重生后江太太只想搞事业
In her previous life, Gu Xiao’s father worked himself to the bone and spoiled her into a naive little princess who knew nothing of the world. In the end, she was deceived in love and marriage, and her family was destroyed. Given a new life, she resolves to protect her family this time. She tears apart fake sweethearts and brutally takes down the worst sorts of people, showing off an imposing presence despite her young age. She opens factories, becomes a boss, and builds her own brand. Her career
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The Tycoon's Wife Has Many Secret Identities 豪门夫人马甲多
(A fictional setting, feel-good wish fulfillment, online face-slapping, and the female lead has tons of secret identities!) The eldest daughter of the Qin family, missing for years, has finally been found. Everyone says she is talentless and immoral, with no money or power, and that a pheasant can never become a phoenix. The leader of a gang in M Continent calls her his ancestor. A mysterious piano master? A poison doctor whom everyone pursues, yet who is impossible to find? The top-ranked elite
78.7kReads9.4Score7.9kShelves
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They Wanted Me to Be a Sacrificial Stepmother, but I Chose to Make My Own Way 让我当炮灰主母，我偏另谋高枝
[Historical Romance / Household Intrigue / Sweet Romance / The Male Lead Is Head Over Heels] In Ruyi's Beloved Concubine, the heir apparent Xie Yunzhix is a brave and formidable warrior, always dashing across the battlefield in fine clothes, with no one able to stand against him. Sadly, he is only a supporting character. The story opens with him in a vegetative state, leaving behind three adopted sons. Xu Qingyi discovers that she has become the foil to the beloved heroine of a sweet romance. On
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Reporting to President Li! His Wife Is Flirty and Wild After Being Reborn 报告厉总！夫人她重生后又撩又野
[The short drama is now streaming] [Rebirth + sweet romance + putting scumbags in their place + devoted couple + equally strong leads] Ye Nanyi grew up in the slums. For the sake of so-called family ties, she pulled out every thorn she had, only for people to think she was weak and easy to bully. Only after dying a tragic death did she see who truly deserved her devotion. Reborn, she promptly cut ties with her so-called family and began a sweet life as a wife. “Little thing, you'd better behave.
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The First Thing I Did as a County Magistrate: Feed the Whole County 做女县令第一件事：让全县吃饱饭
[Farming + infrastructure development + improving people’s livelihoods + System + a female magistrate’s rise to power] Shen Zheng opens her eyes to find she’s become a newly appointed female magistrate. The county office is so poor that plaster is crumbling off the walls, and the granary is so empty even the mice stay away. Everyone knows that the poorest county in all of Liuyang Prefecture is this very county, Tong’an. Just as she thinks she’ll have to waste three years in Tong’an before retiri
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Weight Exchange System: The Fat Man's Comeback Plan 体重兑换系统：胖子逆袭计划
[An entertainment-industry story about the protagonist's struggle to make it in show business.] [No slacking off, no meltdowns, no dating shows, no livestreaming. She acts earnestly, works hard on set, and becomes a top-tier star through her skill and body of work.] In her previous life, Shang Ye was an out-and-out comic foil. She stumbled into the entertainment industry, but a congenital illness left her overweight, so all she could do was play chubby nobodies in low-budget comedies. After
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From the Start, I Changed My Fate by Selling Braised Meat 开局分家，我靠卖卤肉改命
[Farming + Widow's sister-in-law + Feel-good story + Strong heroine + Building wealth + Putting scumbags in their place, no romance. The male lead is her brother-in-law, but their relationship is familial. The male characters have very little page time, and the heroine's story takes center stage.] Li Yu transmigrated from being a modern handicrafts and food blogger into the life of a poor woman in ancient times whose husband died on their very first day of marriage. To survive, Li Yu split the f
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The Three Kingdoms’ Heartthrob: I Win the World and Every Hunk 三国万人迷：天下与猛男皆入我怀
Just got a rating, so it’ll go up later. A strong female lead + one woman and multiple male rivals competing for her + infrastructure building + no System + no storage space. Historical figures. Keeping everyone chaste is hard. A fitness coach transmigrates to the Three Kingdoms era, wins over famous generals and develops technology, building infrastructure all the way to the Industrial Revolution. Nine male gods protect her for life. She neither becomes emperor nor marries, yet everyone cal
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I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门
(The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh
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You Dumped Me After I Passed the Scholar Exam, So Why Are You Crying Now That I’m Rich? 中秀才就休妻，我暴富你又哭什么
The moment Ye Caiping opened her eyes, she found herself a divorced woman, with her sister-in-law back home sharpening a knife against her. It wasn't that her sister-in-law was unreasonable. The original owner of this body was simply too awful! How awful? Here, take a look: Whenever her husband's family needed to build a house, if there was even a single grain of surplus food at her parents' home, she'd come sniffing around like a mad dog and take it all. So her mother-in-law could eat meat ever
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After Fleeing the Chaotic Era, I Became the Founding Empress 乱世逃亡后，我成了开国女帝
[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
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I Photographed Every Has-Been Online Celebrity, and Now I’m Finally Famous 拍遍全网糊咖，醉姐终于火了
[No romance for the heroine, career-focused + entertainment System + fan site manager / agent / boss] Chen Zui has been in a parallel world for a year. The music variety show she was supposed to join gets canceled at the last minute. Fine, fine, guess I’m just unlucky. She’s replaced on a dance show because she stepped out with her right foot first. She gets angry, then gets angry for a moment. She gets edited out of an entertainment variety show for offending a popular star. You dare mess with
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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
[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
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Conquering the Apocalypse: Your Big Sis Is Still Your Big Sis 纵横末世，你姐还得是你姐
[Apocalypse + reborn + space + System + strong female and male leads + pets + stockpiling + no saintly heroine + zero-cost looting] Extreme heat, torrential rain, floods, extreme cold, earthquakes, acid rain, endless days, endless nights, insect plagues, dense fog... One disaster after another leaves people gasping for air. Ten years into the apocalypse, Wen Ruchu is betrayed by her best friend, cheated on by her boyfriend, and dies full of resentment. Now that she's been given another life, she
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Starting from Scratch in a Primitive Tribe 从零开始穿越原始部落
Note: A versatile, strong heroine with extensive knowledge and practical skills + no romance + early story focused on building up a primitive tribe. When Han Zhi wakes up, she finds herself in a primitive matriarchal society. She eats sour, bitter wild fruit, drinks icy stream water, and lives in a dark, damp cave. She doesn't even have clothes to cover herself! Han Zhi weeps into the wind. “Is this any way for a person to live?” Other people transmigrate with pocket dimensions or Systems, s
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No Forgiveness, No Getting Back Together: Miss Su Is Thriving on Her Own 不原谅，不复合，苏小姐独美
After six years together, Jiang Yihuai puts an arm around his new flame and breaks up with her. Su Yumian makes no fuss. She packs her suitcase, takes the enormous breakup settlement, and moves out without hesitation. His friends all egg him on: “How long do you think Su Yumian will last this time?” Everyone in the capital knows she loves Jiang Yihuai desperately, so much that she has no pride or temper. She’ll come crawling back within three days, for sure. But three months pass… And she still
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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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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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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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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 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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Whoa, I Can Travel Between Two Worlds 哇塞我能两界往返
The protagonist, Wu Xiaoyao, is an outstanding graduate of a military academy in the 21st century. He returns to his hometown to start a business and opens a small farm. One day, while fishing by the river, he accidentally falls into the water and unexpectedly transmigrates to the 1970s. Even more astonishingly, he can travel between the two worlds, with two eras appearing before him. Watch how Wu Xiaoyao makes a splash in both of these momentous times!
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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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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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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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Working at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative: My 1960s Buying Spree 就职供销社，我在60年代搞代购
With a loud crash, Xu Jiaojiao, from the twenty-second century, survives an air disaster and transmigrates to the resource-starved 1960s, with three years of famine looming. Luckily, she has the “Buy-It-All Shopping Group” golden finger. She lands a job through a supply-and-marketing cooperative recruitment drive and gets a secure government job for life. Brown sugar, meat buns, milk, chocolate... While everyone else chews grass, I snack on dates. I’ll stockpile the good stuff until the warehous
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