Recommend the Best Historical Romance Stories You've Read Over the Years, with Strong Female Leads 求大家这么多年来看过的古代言情（女强）
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Surely You Laugh at My Passion 多情应笑我
Lin Fang has been disguised as a boy since childhood, and she can't help feeling helpless about it. Her household registration says she's male, so what can she do? But the secret she has sworn to protect is discovered by a young boy she accidentally rescues! Lin Fang thought she'd picked up a deadweight, but once the boy, Yun Weiming, regains his identity, she feels as if she's sitting on a mountain of gold. “Who would've thought! I've picked up all kinds of things before, but you're the most va
78.7kReads9.7Score9.6kShelves
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Transmigrated as a Treacherous Minister's Legitimate Daughter, She Plays the Part to Perfection 穿成奸臣嫡女，她本色出演
[Transmigrate into a book + Career-focused early on + Sweet romance + One-on-one romance + Both leads are devoted to each other] [Two-faced, ruthless minister's daughter × Wild, formidable iron-faced general] The ruler of the business world transmigrates into a book overnight, becoming the daughter of the treacherous chancellor. She throws her weight around and commits every kind of evil, with the label “vicious supporting female character” practically branded onto her. She's madly pursuing the
105.2kReads9.6Score13.1kShelves
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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 Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了
[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
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The Princess Consort Kills in Plain Sight 王妃在线杀人
September new release: The Reborn Young Lady: I Don’t Need a Knife to Kill. Come take a look~~ [Feel-good face-slapping and putting scumbags in their place + an absolutely badass heroine + two equally strong, devoted leads + endless affection] The greatest master under heaven returns to Shengjing. See how the princess consort takes on everyone single-handedly!!
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The Disabled Prince and His Bewitching Empress: This PDA Is Toxic 残王妖后：这狗粮有毒
[A one-on-one romance with a powerful male lead and a powerful female lead, both pure and devoted, and a dramatic heroine. No melodrama or misunderstandings, all sweetness and no angst. Read with confidence.] The story moves quickly, and the villains meet their ends just as fast. It revolves around the leads flirting with each other, with plenty of laughs and lighthearted moments. This is not a palace-intrigue or political-scheming story, but a sweet romance with a touch of fantasy. Read at your
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My Beloved, Through Every Dawn and Dusk 卿是朝朝暮暮
Shen Yunshu studied archaeology and had been working for just two years. She loved history, and her favorite dynasty was the Rong Dynasty. A few days ago, she had read an unofficial history of the Rong Dynasty's royal family. Little did she expect that after falling asleep, she would wake up in the Rong Dynasty, sent there by the heavens, as Shen Yunshu, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family of Prince Zhenbei's residence. She had transmigrated to her favorite dynasty and become a descendant
38.9kReads9.4Score4.5kShelves
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Spring Banquet 春日宴
She kept male favorites and toyed with powerful ministers! For eight years, the arrogant and tyrannical Princess Danyang, Li Huaiyu, wreaked havoc across the court and country. She died on the day the new emperor ascended the throne, bleeding from every orifice in a truly gruesome death. The officials celebrated and the people rejoiced: Evil gets what it deserves! Good riddance! Yet on the seventh day after her death, Princess Danyang returned to life in the body of the Bai family’s Fourth Mis
16.1kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves
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The Evil King's Physician Consort: Poisoning My Way Through the World 邪王医妃：毒步天下
She was a world-renowned medical prodigy of the 21st century, peerless in both medicine and poison. After transmigrating, she became the eldest legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household in the Great Zhou Kingdom. She should have been born to a noble life, yet everyone walked all over her! Her birth mother died young, her father was weak, her half-sister was brazen, and she was both a thorn in her grandmother’s side and a thorn in her concubine mother’s flesh! Ye Sheng: Oh, what a miserable li
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Offering to the Abyss 献京渊
[Print edition releasing October 25] “He taught me to kill, seize power, and look after myself. I taught him what it means to have a weakness.” [Serious drama + political intrigue + the fate of the nation and its people + I’m terrible at writing blurbs] Jiang Qingyu was born into wealth, and her family’s love had made her naive and pampered. It wasn’t until the day the entire Jiang family was executed that she realized how foolish she had been! When she opened her eyes again, she was determined
22.4kReads9.5Score3.6kShelves
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The Phoenix Rises! Her Divine Power Returns! The Disgraced Heiress Rules Three Realms 凤主临！神格归！废材嫡女镇三界
[Spirit spring space + all attributes + unmatched healer and poison master + no saintly heroine + two powerful leads + sweet, satisfying romance] She was an heir to an ancient martial arts family, a woman who once commanded the world. One transmigration later, she becomes an ugly good-for-nothing. After repairing her dantian, she awakens a five-element spiritual root, breaks through to the innate sacred body, bonds with divine beasts, concocts divine pills, forges divine artifacts, and builds he
26.8kReads9.3Score3.6kShelves
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The Phoenix Reigns Supreme: The Useless Young Lady Starts Over 凤临天下：废材大小姐重新开始
[Historical romance + devoted couples + sweet indulgence + transmigration + two powerful leads] This is the author's first book, so there are many shortcomings. I hope everyone will share plenty of feedback. If you enjoy the book, please give the author a five-star review, okay? Sending love~ Mu Ran, codename Zero One. Once a spy, she transmigrates to another world after an accident and becomes the eldest daughter of the Mu family in the ancient Suzaku Kingdom of the Fengling Continent. Unable t
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Phoenix Across the Realm: The Prince's Darling 凰倾百里：殿下掌中娇
[Cherished by One + Reborn] With four kingdoms under heaven and an age of chaos approaching, the winds stirred and the clouds gathered, yet someone was willing to protect another with their life. “She risked her life to protect me. I should protect her with mine.” “Of all the waters in the world, I will drink only from this one gourd: A Li.” “A Li, remember this: the whole world is not as important as you.” “All I do is for a life of peace and stability. All I ask is to spend my life by your
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Proud Phoenix Soars the Nine Heavens: Slaying Her Way Through the Three Realms 凤傲九天：逆天狂妃杀遍三界
She returns with vengeance, and it's time for those who wronged her to pay. She commands divine beasts, claims divine artifacts, and trounces those pure-hearted schemers. Others run from magical beasts, but she beats them until they're fleeing through the forest. Pills? Are they really so precious? Her spirit beasts eat those pills like candy. Watch her rule the world. Feng Lihan: “Girl, I'll wait for you to grow strong enough to look down on the world with me.” Mu Ziying smiles and replies, “It
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The Poison Doctor's Wild Consort Is a Little Extra 毒医狂妃有点拽
She was the sole inheritor of ancient Chinese martial arts, a peerless genius physician known as the Ghost Hand. Then, in a single moment, she transmigrated into the body of the Ye family's useless young lady. When she opened her eyes again, the world was in turmoil! What? Born useless? A harbinger of calamity? Fine. She would soon show them exactly what it meant to be born useless, and what it meant to be a harbinger of calamity. He was the Evil Emperor, revered by all: mysterious, noble, and u
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The Poison Doctor's Wild Concubine Conquers the World 毒医狂妃倾天下
A medical prodigy from the twenty-first century transmigrates into a body of primordial unity, capable of containing the spiritual power of all things. Since Heaven has given her a second life, she certainly won't waste this chance. She won't let a single person who bullied her get away with it! But why does this prince keep coming to see her? “You have two choices: either you stay by my side for the rest of your life, or I stay by yours for the rest of mine. Choose...”
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A Glorious Dawn Over the Realm 盛世朝凰
[Strong heroine + strong hero; the heroine is no saint] Ye Chongxi, the legitimate daughter of the foremost family in the Tianqi Empire and a genius known throughout the capital, is surrounded and attacked by her fiancé and several allied factions! Chongxi is a demon who emerged from the dark land of death, worshipped as a god by all the dead and the creatures of darkness. A summoning brings her into the other woman’s body. She says, “I can grant you three wishes.” She says, “First, everyone who
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My Scumbag Fiancé Ran Away from Our Wedding, So I Married Someone Else on the Spot 渣男逃婚，我当场改嫁了
On her wedding day, Meng Jinyao’s intended groom, Gu Xiuming, eloped with another woman, turning her into a laughingstock. She hardened her heart and changed grooms on the spot, marrying Gu Xiuming’s adoptive father, Gu Jingxi. After the wedding, Gu Xiuming sneered at her. “Meng Jinyao, have you no shame? You couldn’t become my bride, so now you want to become my mother?” Meng Jinyao looked at the man standing in the doorway and complained, “Husband, your son is being disrespectful and insulting
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