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1. 201 重 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 Chiyo千代Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [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 3.6kReads9.3Score427Shelves
2. 202 宅 Reborn as the Legitimate Daughter: A Tale of Household Intrigue 宅斗之嫡女重生 Qi Zhiyu柒支鱼Ancient Romance306k WordsCompleted Reborn + household intrigue + crushing scum + revenge In her previous life, Ran Xingyao lost her mother and was unloved by her father. She spent her life timidly trying to please others, hoping that marriage would set her free. After marrying her childhood sweetheart, she was always careful in the Yin household and faithfully fulfilled her duties as its mistress. Yet somehow, she ended up dying without even a body left behind. Living her life over again, she finally saw the truth. She cast off h 34Reads6.1Score—Shelves
3. 203 满 Spring Over the City 满城春 A Copper Coin一枚铜钱Ancient Romance560k WordsCompleted [New Bonus Chapters] The Liu family of the capital is an illustrious noble house, so powerful that even the imperial clan treats them with deference. Liu Yan, the youngest legitimate daughter of the Liu family's second branch, is gifted and blessed with both wisdom and good fortune. When her stepmother joins the family as she turns five, Liu Yan expects a fierce battle. But her stepmother turns out to be quite unlike anyone expected. With her older brother looking out for her and her childhood s 15.5kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
4. 204 妃 The Consort's Fortune (Published) 妃运（已出版） Shadow in the Mirror镜中影Ancient Romance204k WordsCompleted Eleven years ago, in a world of ice and snow, five-year-old Leng Xiang crawled out from beneath her parents’ frozen bodies and clutched a passerby’s hem, begging, “Save me.” Eleven years later, she became known throughout the martial world as “Dark Fragrance,” a deadly beauty whose scent could steal the soul, and the stuff of countless people’s nightmares. Three years later, the gentle and elegant eldest daughter of the distinguished Su family in Yuanzhou made a grand entrance into married life, 153Reads6.9Score—Shelves
5. 205 掌 The Darling in the Palm 掌上娇娇 Zhi Yun支云Ancient Romance907k WordsCompleted [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 84.3kReads9.5Score9.6kShelves
6. 206 外 The Illegitimate Daughter 外室女 Cai Wangwang菜汪汪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 7.8kReads9.3Score869Shelves
7. 207 古 A Love Affair with Antiques 古玩情缘 Winter Snow, Late Sunny Skies冬雪晚晴Urban1.3M WordsCompleted The Lin family has passed down a skill for examining jade by touch and appraising gold, yet they never dealt in antiques. After his grandfather’s death, Lin Fenghan is left destitute, scraping by in a little shop. By chance, he acquires a fragment of a gold-threaded jade burial suit and enters the antiques trade, only to discover that his father’s death is shrouded in countless mysteries. It is said that in her later years, Empress Dowager Cixi secretly removed a great many rare treasures from t 670Reads8.7Score112Shelves
8. 208 太 The Empress Dowager Reborn: A Phoenix’s Plot for the Empire 太后重生：凤谋天下 Gu Yu孤妤Ancient Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Strong heroine + ensemble cast + political intrigue] Reborn, she turns the world into a board and all living beings into pieces. She is the one pulling the strings behind the scenes. Slender, pale hands, an icy gaze She moves her pieces, a faint smile on her lips Why should beauty worry? Reborn, risen from the ashes A phoenix’s schemes hide in her lotus-bloom bones Her name will live on in the annals of history Willow branches in her hometown, the moon a hook She watches generals and princes 1.3kReads9.0Score185Shelves
9. 209 重 Reborn: The General's Legitimate Daughter Is Richer Than a Nation 重生之将门嫡女富可敌国 Woodbank Fish木岸鱼Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted (A satisfying rebirth story, with domestic and palace intrigue) Before Liang Wanqing discovered that her husband had married her solely to get his hands on her maternal grandmother’s treasure, her life should have been a wonderful one. But betrayal always came without warning. Ten years of marriage were worth less than a treasure that might not even exist. Her once meek cousin moved into the household and took her place as mistress of the Chen family. Her maid climbed into her husband’s bed and 1.7kReads9.0Score355Shelves
10. 210 踹 I Dumped My Poor, Good-for-Nothing Boyfriend for a Powerful Brocade Guard 踹掉穷渣男，我选权势滔天锦衣卫 Gathering Vetch, Gathering Vetch采薇采薇Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Hilarious] + [Lighthearted] + [Good values]: How do you turn an aloof, celibate man into a clingy puppy? Rong Shu raises her hand: I know this one! She transmigrated into an orphan whose parents had died, struggling to survive while caring for her younger brother. To protect herself, she spread the word everywhere that she was involved with Wei Yan, the Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Before long, the men who had been targeting her ran off with their tails between their legs. Rong S 26.5kReads9.2Score3.7kShelves
11. 211 通 The Spirit Medium's Strange Cases 通灵诡事 Not Drunk不醉Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted Parental love? I have none. From the moment I was born, they wanted to strangle me. Sibling affection? I have none. My own brother calls me a country bumpkin. Friendship with my peers? I have none. Everyone in the village says I'm a demon in human form who eats children. Love? What even is that? The first time I saw Qi Yue, I just thought he looked clean-cut and handsome. The next time I saw him, I found out his mother was the woman who had gone looking for Fourth Auntie years ago. Only now, she 2kReads9.2Score390Shelves
12. 212 开EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 Purple Spirit Wind and Snow紫灵风雪Eastern Fantasy6.1M WordsCompleted [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 538.9kReads9.7Score71.1kShelves
13. 213 锦 A Brocade of Splendor 锦色盈门 Little Sheyu Fragrance小舍予香Ancient Romance972k WordsCompleted Ye Xuelan, the second young lady of the Marquis of Mu'en's household, is the most disgraceful of them all. Though born into a marquis's family, she grew up at the ancestral home in the county town, crude and uncultured, with naturally large feet. She shows no respect to her grandmother and no affection for her sisters. She can do everything the street thugs can, and everything they can't. This oddity is loathed by everyone in the marquis's household, yet she insists on staying there, determined 6.1kReads9.0Score601Shelves
14. 214 五 The Five Elements Chaos Scripture 五行混沌经 Master Bricklayer搬砖圣手Eastern Fantasy5.0M WordsCompleted (A comic adaptation of the same name is now available) [Mortal Cultivator + No System + No Harem] A village boy with five spiritual roots accidentally embarks on the path to immortality. First, he obtains an ancient mirror left behind by an Immortal Emperor, then he acquires cultivation arts from the immortal realm. But who could have guessed that the mirror contains an immortal estate, hidden within chaos? And the immortal arts transform the five elements into chaos. The two fit together perfec 46.5kReads8.6Score5.6kShelves
15. 215 侯 I Rule the Marquis's Household: Scumbag Husband and Wicked Concubine, Get Lost 侯门主母我当家，渣男贱妾给我爬 See Fortune at First Sight, Meow一见生财瞄Ancient Romance490k WordsCompleted [This novel has been signed for publication] After disappearing for eight years, Shen Qiuci returned to Shangjing and found that the Shen family had changed beyond recognition. Her father and brothers had died in bizarre circumstances on the battlefield. Her elder sister had been abused to death by her husband’s family. The Danyang Marquis’s household was plotting to wipe out the entire Shen family! Taking on her elder sister’s identity, Shen Qiuci fought her way back into the marquis’s house 2.9kReads8.5Score342Shelves
16. 216 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
17. 217 逃 Fleeing Famine: My Whole Family Is Reborn 逃荒，我全家都是重生的 Mo Mo Is Master Mo墨墨是墨爷Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Dreams of the Future + Whole Family Reborn + No Romance] In her previous life, Su Yin, her mother, and her aunt were brutally killed by rioters. In the blink of an eye, the three of them were reborn together. Before the rioters stormed their village, they took refuge in Xinghua Village, where their uncle lived, and fled in advance. On the road as refugees, they ran into Su Yin’s abandoned, blindly filial father. They thought he’d be dead weight, but it turned out he could see the future, and hi 70kReads9.4Score8.4kShelves
18. 218 穿 After Becoming the Duke's Dowager, I Kicked Out Every Ungrateful Child and Grandchild 穿成国公老夫人后我把不孝儿孙全踢了 Li Sanye李三爷Ancient Romance1.6M WordsCompleted Qin Yun transmigrates into a book, and from the start, her whole family is being stripped of their possessions and exiled? Looking at this roomful of unfilial descendants, Qin Yun thinks the whole family has brought this on themselves. The eldest son's family is corrupt and lawless, and their servants commit acts of violence, bringing disaster upon the household. The second son's family is weak and hidebound, yet they pride themselves on being upright scholars. They presume to criticize the crow 1.7kReads9.1Score361Shelves

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    I want to be an old lady, she's so wise 😳

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