A Great No-Romance Novel with a Decisive Female Lead 好看。无CP，女主遇事果断

1. 51 还 Lucky I Left in Time, or I Would've Become the Heroine 还好我走得快，不然成女主了 Star-and-Moon Little Bun星月小馒头Modern Romance551k WordsCompleted [No romance + strong female lead + mindless power fantasy] “Shocking! War Goddess Qi Jinxiao has entered a romance plot! The truth will leave you speechless...” Make the real heiress suck up to the fake one? If you’re sick, go get treated. Stop fainting all the time just to get attention. Make the amnesiac general’s wife lower herself to be a concubine? The doctor who saved his life is so skilled that, naturally, we’ll turn her over to the state. Make the female CEO offer up her company to compe 370Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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   Female protagonist with no romantic partner

2. 52 快 Quick Transmigration: I Became the Big Shot’s Grandma 快穿之我成了大佬的奶奶 Yuncheng Erya云程尔雅Modern Romance195k WordsCompleted [Quick transmigration + mission requirements + raising children + no pairing] After unlucky Yan Qiu died by accident, she became bound to the Good Fortune System. The System promised that all she had to do was travel to other worlds, help the children of destiny who were fated to die young, raise them until they turned eighteen, and help them find their own paths in life. Then her mission would be complete. After completing the mission, her bad luck would be reversed, and she would get to live a 32Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 53 快 Quick Transmigration: Once I’ve Won Over the Heroine, Who Cares About the Men? 快穿：搞定女主后，谁还管男人 Mo Baiwan墨白宛Modern Romance222k WordsCompleted Quick transmigration + strong female lead + no romance + satisfying read Ling Cencen examines the body in front of the mirror, feeling here and there. “Hmm, not bad!” “Young and foolish, I never knew pecs were so great. I mistook ribs for treasure.” “What? You want me to win over the female lead? If I’m doing everything myself, what do I need a man for?” 19Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 54 快 Quick Transmigration: As the Villainess, I Won the Heroine's Halo Through Sheer Skill 快穿女配，我凭实力抢到女主光环 Fish Rice Flower鱼米花Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Strong Female Lead, No Romance, Feel-Good] Miao Xing is a super-strong girl with a golden finger. Through a twist of fate, she gets bound to a System for saving books with disastrous endings. System: “Your mission is to play the troublemaking female supporting character and make life miserable for the undeserving male and female leads!” Miao Xing: “Sorry, I’m only interested in being the leading lady!” In a new world, the System presents her with a hefty guidebook titled The Art of Tea-Soaked S 658Reads8.9Score—Shelves
5. 55 快 Quick Transmigration: All Beings Raise Me to Godhood 快穿，众生拥我登神位 Singing Softly of Fireflies浅唱流萤Ancient Romance301k WordsCompleted [Female-led quick transmigration + powerful heroine + no CP + tool-like System; the heroine's personality will gradually develop] The three thousand minor worlds aren't all progressing well. Yun Meng, a newly born supreme god destined by heaven, entered the minor worlds to build up merit so she could ascend to godhood, but somehow ended up bound to a Cannon Fodder Comeback System. 444 (overjoyed): Hostie, let me guide you on your cannon-fodder comeback journey!!! Yun Meng: For the sake of my tru 81Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 56 模 Simulator: After Her Fortune Was Stolen, the Cannon Fodder Girl Went on a Rampage 模拟器：气运被偷后炮灰她杀疯了 Bingbing Doesn't Eat Pastries饼饼不吃饼Ancient Romance613k WordsCompleted [Cultivation simulator + powerful female lead + no romance + genius + steady power progression + satisfying power fantasy + comeback] Ling Yun was the eldest daughter of the head of the cultivation family, the Dongfangs. She had the heroine’s script, complete with top-tier luck and maxed-out talent, but was switched at birth and sent to a poor mountain village. There, she became a cannon-fodder character whose luck had been stolen and talent sealed. There was no way she could put up with that! F 3.2kReads8.1Score342Shelves
7. 57 修 Cultivation: This Cannon Fodder Refuses to Be a Walking Treasure Trove 修仙：炮灰不想当机缘库 Keep Looking Ahead.向前看。Ancient Romance665k WordsCompleted [No Romance] Xiang Yue was seven when she realized she had transmigrated into a book. The day before, she'd bought a jade bottle at the market, and the heroine was about to come crying to take it away. Inside that bottle was a top-grade Spirit-Cleansing Pill. The heroine would use it to transform her four-element spiritual root into a top-grade ice spiritual root, while Xiang Yue had a three-element spiritual root. The heroine would get to study under a Mahayana elder of the sect, while Xiang Yu 5kReads7.4Score404Shelves
8. 58 快 Quick Transmigration: The Host Cultivates the Way of Emotionlessness 快穿：宿主她修无情道 Shi Yu释雨Ancient Romance132k WordsOngoing "What? You're cultivating the Path of Ruthlessness?" "Yeah. Didn't the job posting say to maintain order and not let my thoughts run wild?" Quick transmigration conquest System: Umm, I guess that's not really wrong? [No Romance] + [Slow Transmigration] ver.1 Cultivation? Right up my alley. ver.2 Interstellar ABO: The passerby just thinks you're crazy. Where the hell did the historical romance tags come from? What happened to my Strong Heroine tag? Aaaaaah! A word of warning: The heroine's main s 5Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 59 逃 The Fleeing Mother-in-Law: My Goal Is to Become the Story's Most Hated Character 逃荒婆婆：励志成为全文最佳极品 Up Three Thousand上三千Ancient Romance575k WordsCompleted [Fleeing famine + pocket dimension + farming + no romance + stealthy cultivation] Xia Ruoxi transmigrates into a dreadful character in a famine-escape story, even more wretched than Wang Baochuan. While everyone else gathers wild greens to feed themselves, she gathers them to feed her stepson and his whole family. In the original story, her family raises her husband's stepson, while he earns high rank and wealth and marries a beautiful young woman. Twenty years later, he returns with his lovel 879Reads8.1Score101Shelves
10. 60 修 Cultivation: The Socially Anxious Beauty Ascends Through System Punishments 修仙：社恐美人靠系统惩罚飞升了 The Evening Breeze Isn't Cold晚风不冷Ancient Romance109k WordsOngoing [Cultivation] [No CP] [Genius Protagonist] Chi An is socially anxious. After dying from overwork, she is brought to the Cultivation Realm by a Guardian System. She means to refuse, but somehow ends up bound to it by accident. Faced with the fluffy System's tearful pleas, she can only resign herself to it. But the System assigns her ten guardian missions a day! Her socially anxious self can't take it. The System's punishments don't seem so bad, though. They are drawn from the universe's ten great —Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 61 穿 Transmigrated Into a Stunning Female Side Character, I Went on a Rampage in the Cultivation World 穿成神颜女配，我在修仙界杀疯了 Daydreamer白日梦想家丷Ancient Romance611k WordsCompleted [Cultivation, peerless beauty, no romance, adored by everyone, transmigrate into a book, strong female lead, genius] Jiang Ying transmigrates and discovers she has entered a novel she once read, as a minor character who shares her name. Right at the start, when demon cultivators attack, she is shoved off a spirit boat while shielding the ambitious supporting female character from disaster. With the novel’s original heroine before her and the ambitious supporting heroine behind her, she crushes e 1.4kReads8.8Score130Shelves
12. 62 穿 Transmigrated as a Background Character, I Ship CPs Up Close 穿成路人甲的我近距离磕cp This Player Takes His Leave本玩家就此别过Ancient Romance300k WordsCompleted After quitting her headache-inducing job, Qing Xiao happily spent a month lounging around at home. Then she was suddenly bound to a System and transported into a danmei political-intrigue novel she’d once read, where she had to complete a mission in the role of an insignificant passerby from the original story. The son of a disgraced official, burdened by a blood feud, The headstrong son of a general, The refined young nobleman, The dashing wanderer of the martial world, What do any of these peo 57Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 63 系 After the System Crashed, Song Jiaojiao Was Exposed by the Heavenly Dao 系统死机后，宋娇娇被天道曝光了 Xiao Hong, Who Loves Nut Energy Bars爱吃坚果能量棒的萧弘Ancient Romance281k WordsCompleted The modern-day award-winning actress Song Jiaojiao binds herself to a sign-in System and transmigrates into a cultivation novel as an obscure passerby. Unexpectedly, the System crashes after being struck by temporal turbulence. Just as she’s at a loss, the Heavenly Dao’s Golden Rankings suddenly appear. Once she’s exposed on the list, she discovers that she’s invincible. Ranking One, Aptitude List: Tenth place, Shen Miaoyin, the legitimate daughter of the chancellor of the Helian Dynasty; ninth 1.2kReads—Score101Shelves
14. 64 这 This Background Character Is Surprisingly Powerful [Quick Transmigration] 这个背景板有点强【快穿】 The Tea Is a Little Sweet茶有点甜Ancient Romance706k WordsOngoing [No romance] She gets bound to a System in a dream and is forced to begin a journey through other worlds. Yuan Xi: “???” What is going on? Can she report it for human trafficking? World One: The sister of the white-moonlight in a body-double story You mess with my little sister? The Chu family is going bankrupt. World Two: Crown princess of a small cultivation kingdom Cultivators coveting the mortal world's faith and breaking the rules? How about a beheading and the destruction of your kingdom? 375Reads—Score102Shelves
15. 65 女 The Female Lead Becomes the World's Richest After She Transmigrates into a Book 女主穿书后成了世界首富 Little Moon Baby小月宝宝Modern Romance194k WordsCompleted [System] [Sign-In] [Female Tycoon] [Face-Slapping] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [No CP] After transmigrating into a book, Yun Jiuxi binds herself to a tycoon System. Every day, sign-in rewards her with cash and System points that can make her more beautiful and powerful. She discovers that the System is a tsundere princess System who rewards her with all kinds of wonderful things whenever it's happy. As long as she keeps the System happy, she can get whatever she wants. Who needs a boyfriend? Ding! 26Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 66 穿 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times and Was Mistaken for a God 穿越古代我被误认为神明 Xu Jiangjiang许将将Ancient Romance151k WordsCompleted [No Romance] [Invincible Female Lead] Yue Heng is a struggling web-novel author who dies suddenly after staying up all night working herself to the bone, then accidentally transmigrates to ancient times. She activates an invincible System that grants her whatever she wishes for and lands on the snowy mountains of Penglai. She waits at the mountain summit for the right chance to enter the world. What arrives instead is the Prince of Jin’s heir, pleading for divine aid. She descends the mountain a 188Reads5.7Score—Shelves
17. 67 快 Quick Transmigration: The Heavenly Way's Savior Goes on a Killing Spree for the Female Lead 快穿为拯救女主天道她杀疯了 Icy Peach Orange冰桃橙橙Modern Romance141k WordsCompleted Quick transmigration + golden finger + strong female lead + no fixed CP The female lead is the Heavenly Dao. She helps the Chosen Ones eliminate Systems and transmigrators. Bring it on if you dare! There is no fixed CP, and some chapters have no CP at all. It's all about the fun. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 68 快 Quick Transmigration: I Can Collect Golden Fingers 快穿：我能收集金手指 Persimmon Ji the Great柿叽大王Modern Romance308k WordsCompleted [No fixed pairing] [Includes a world with female dominants] [Includes a woman transmigrating into a man] [The heroine grows stronger over time] [Both powerful women and powerful men feature; if you dislike that, don’t read] [Includes a woman transmigrating into a man; if you dislike that, don’t read] [Just writing for fun; if you don’t like it, don’t read] Shi Jin didn’t know what she was, either. Then one day, she was suddenly bound to a golden finger collection System. All she had to do was co 1.5kReads8.7Score150Shelves
19. 69 我 All My Secret Identities Are Offspring of Heaven's Sages 我的马甲全是天道圣人们的崽 Gazing at the Bright Moon明月望Ancient Romance162k WordsOngoing She transmigrated into the perilous Primordial World, with a game simulator as her only golden finger. It let her create secret identities and choose her origins. So her first secret identity was the child of the Three Pure Ones! Her first father was skilled in alchemy, her second father in crafting artifacts, and her third father was none other than Tongtian, the leader of the Jie Sect, known for gathering immortals from across the land. He excelled at formations and swordsmanship. With the str 329Reads9.1Score219Shelves
20. 70 快 Quick Transmigration: My Host Is Strong, Sassy, and Absolutely Unhinged 快穿：我家宿主又强又飒又疯批 Li Sanwan黎三万Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Quick Transmigration + No CP + System + Powerful Lead] [Long World Arc: The Empress Stands Alone] Being a person is hard. Being an empress is harder. Being an empress who works year-round without a day off is harder still. Gu Jinghong couldn’t take it anymore. She grabbed a Cannon Fodder System and headed to myriad worlds to torment a villain for fun. But she refuses to follow the script. You were supposed to be cannon fodder, so how did you end up saving the world? The plot’s gone to pieces, 103Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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    No romantic partner, the female lead is decisive.

21. 71 快 Quick Transmigration: The Big Shot Just Wants to Stir Things Up 快穿：大佬只想搞事情 July Dawn Breeze七月晓风Modern Romance772k WordsCompleted [A bold and badass heroine] [No romance] [Face-slapping and punishing scumbags] Yan Xi is a mission operative. Because she possesses so many good qualities, the System tricks her into returning and binds her to it again, sending her off on another quick transmigration journey. After that, in world after world, a vicious wolf king willingly turns into a cuddly little wolf, while a mutated giant crow obediently serves as a mount... From then on, the timid little System watches its powerful Host, 441Reads8.8Score102Shelves
22. 72 签 After 999 Days of Sign-In, I Win by Doing Nothing with Magic 签到999天，我靠魔法躺赢 Tu Susu荼宿宿Ancient Romance147k WordsCompleted [No Romance + Strong Female Lead + Sign-In + System + Everyone Loves the Heroine] When Mo Qingxian wakes up, she finds herself in the Dongxuan Sect on the Xuantian Continent, where she’s become a menial disciple. After 999 days of signing in, she gets a magic System. Would you like to learn offensive magic? Would you like to learn defensive magic? Would you like to learn healing magic? Why even think about it? Of course she wants it all. In this cultivation world, other people cultivate spir 47Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 73 快 The Quick Transmigration Supporting Character Is Stingy and Tough 快穿女配她又抠又刚 Immortal Locust Tree槐树仙Modern Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Quick Transmigration + Supporting Female Character + Face-Slapping + Feel-Good Story + No CP] The heroine is a cheapskate, an absolutely shameless one. She roasts people in the most ridiculous ways and hits like a beast. For various reasons, some authors never finished their stories. As a result, the beings in those story worlds are trapped repeating the same events over and over, unable to escape, and their resentment grows. That is how the task force for fixing abandoned stories came to be. G 1.5kReads9.0Score124Shelves
24. 74 快 Quick Transmigration: Male Protagonist, No Romance, Pure Satisfaction 快穿男主，无cp，包爽文！ Octopus, Six Thousand Words a Day八爪鱼日更六千Ancient Romance310k WordsCompleted Quick transmigration, male protagonist, no romance, no angst, pure satisfaction. (I’m no good at writing blurbs, but the story is great! Give the first couple of chapters a try, please, pretty please!) Chen Luo is bound to the System and becomes a task-taker. The moment he opens his eyes, some idiot is already offering his neck to an axe. World One: Martial arts world, double kill from the start, record verifiable (Complete) World Two: Modern romance, sleazy cannon fodder gets a makeover into a 2kReads8.3Score170Shelves
25. 75 快 Quick Transmigration: My Motherland Is Here, and the Tech Tree Is Maxed Out! 快穿：祖国有我，科技树满点！ Little Chestnut Has Big Dreams小栗子有大梦想Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Su Ling exists to save souls trapped in the mire, helping them win at life with pride, realize their worth, and make up for the regrets they carry... Those souls who are broken and unwilling to give up get a guaranteed easy-win script the moment they meet Su Ling. The status, wealth, and men snatched away by the heroines? Take them all for yourself! 1.5kReads9.0Score152Shelves
26. 76 快 Quick Transmigration: She Never Existed 快穿：她本不存在 Lu Yueyi露月一Modern Romance625k WordsCompleted [Everyone's Favorite Heroine]^ [Pseudo-CP] A voice in Shen Qingyuan's mind has always told her that once the crabapple tree in the courtyard blooms, she'll regain her memories and recover her past. But the tree needs vitality from countless worlds to bloom. To obtain it, she has no choice but to travel between worlds and complete missions. She has visited many eras, from the apocalypse to Republican-era China to ancient times, experiencing different lives, but all she wants is to recover her mem 75Reads6.0Score—Shelves
27. 77 恶 The Villainess Sweeps the Cultivation World with a Card-Drawing System 恶毒女配靠抽卡系统横扫修仙界 Snow Dancing Under the Moon月下雪舞Ancient Romance1.3M WordsOngoing [Transmigrate into a book + power fantasy with a strong female lead + silly comedy + leveling up + card-draw System + everyone's favorite + no romance] Li Ran transmigrated into a cultivation novel as the wicked female supporting character. The original character was the half-sister of the universally adored heroine. Jealous of her in every way, she even fell for the heroine's fiancé and tried to use underhanded tactics to make him marry her. In the end, he ran her through with a sword. Li Ran l 10.9kReads8.7Score1.7kShelves
28. 78 快 Quick Transmigration: Don't Mess with This Real Big Shot 快穿：别惹这个真大佬 Chi Chi Ye赤赤也Modern Romance533k WordsCompleted (No CP, strong heroine, no male lead, and there will never be a male lead! The heroine has no romantic entanglements and shines on her own from start to finish!) Shi Sui was originally a blood-red spider lily growing beside the Yellow Springs Road. After cultivating until she gained human form, she traveled through three thousand worlds to resolve lingering obsessions, thoroughly crushing the scumbags until they wept and begged her to be their father. She also became the brightest light in the d 239Reads9.0Score—Shelves
29. 79 快 Quick Transmigration: The Host Gets the Feel-Good Story Script 快穿之宿主她拿了爽文剧本 Yun Fu云弗Modern Romance962k WordsCompleted The people of the land kneel; all living beings worship her. She is Ji Yan: the Ji of enchantress, the Yan of annihilation. The Demon God descends, and she is crowned queen. Feeling that life is as lonely as snow, she captures a System as her assistant and begins her game. She travels through endless worlds, giving those people another chance at life. [World One: The White Moonlight in a Substitute Romance] Ji Yan: “Who says I can't get a substitute too? You played me first, so I'll do the same 736Reads8.3Score102Shelves
30. 80 快 Quick Transmigration: I Cut Through Everything with Supreme Martial Power 快穿：我靠至高武力值大杀四方 Zi Xiaoshi子晓时Modern Romance185k WordsCompleted [Female-Oriented Quick Transmigration] [Strong Female Lead] [Takes Down Scumbags] [Mindless爽] [Invincible] [No Romance] [No Male Lead] [No AI-Written Prose] [The heroine is neither good nor bad: lawfully evil, doing as she pleases, a hedonist with no morals] [Fast, fast, fast, fast-paced quick transmigration] ◎ Fox spirits cultivate by feeding on the negative emotions of living beings. As the only daughter of the previous Demon King, Ying Wuyue had barely reached adulthood, yet she was already a 126Reads6.4Score—Shelves
31. 81 快 Quick Transmigration: The Tragic-Novel Heroine Awakens as a Black-Hearted Lotus 快穿：虐文女主觉醒成了黑心莲 Lin Feiyue临非月Modern Romance129k WordsCompleted [Quick transmigration + satisfying revenge on scumbags + strong female lead (the heroine is mistreated early on, and doesn't start out powerful; after awakening later, she takes revenge on scumbags with ruthless intensity, and if violence can solve it, she won't waste words)] No-brainer, no romance. After enduring physical and emotional torment, she awakens and turns the scumbags' own tactics against them, leaving them nowhere to turn. She tears apart fake sweethearts and manipulative women, tak 33Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 82 快 Quick Transmigration: The Host Wakes Up and Plays Through Every Little World 快穿：睡醒后宿主玩遍小世界 Willow Branch杨柳枝Modern Romance468k WordsCompleted No romance There are countless strange things in the world, and half of them involve scumbag men and their scummy behavior. There are a whole bunch of Scumbag-Busting Systems in the universe, created just for men like them. Dan Shu was sleeping in her palace. When she woke naturally, she casually caught a ray of starlight, and ended up bound to Xiao Jiu. Xiao Jiu had just been upgraded and was happily on her way to share the news with the Main System when she was somehow captured and bound to so 95Reads8.8Score—Shelves
33. 83 快 Quick Transmigration: The Host Is Here to Stir Up Trouble 快穿：宿主一心搞事情 Vanilla Wheat香草小麦Modern Romance532k WordsCompleted [Strong heroine + no romance + face-slapping satisfaction] This is a world where common sense is shattered on the ground, and beauty rules everything. As long as you're beautiful and kind enough, the whole world will yield to you. They are all gorgeous, talented, and proud, yet each has their own misfortune. Luo Ling's mission is to travel through countless small worlds, collect resources from each plane, fix plane bugs, and, along the way, help the Hosts rebuild their tragic lives. Luo Ling's m 6kReads9.0Score397Shelves
34. 84 系 System: Help! This Heroine Is Too Violent 系统：救命！这女主太暴躁 Don't Break the Pot破罐子不摔Ancient Romance502k WordsCompleted Doting on a daughter, no CP, System story, awakening in progress. “Sister Yuan, who is she?” “She is our mother and our sister, our younger sister and our daughter. She is you, she is me, she is every woman.” If this System won’t let us sit at the table, we’ll flip it over. If this System shackles our bodies and minds, we’ll smash those iron chains. Don’t stop to wipe anyone’s tears. Be strong women who roar past, and the wind you stir up will dry every tear. The heroine is in the middle of 25Reads6.1Score—Shelves
35. 85 快 Quick Transmigration: My Host Is a Max-Level Villain 快穿：我的宿主是满级反派 Goodnight, Strawberry Jam晚安草莓酱Modern Romance381k WordsCompleted [Author’s note: A no-brainer story about crushing scumbags. It starts out okay, but has no ending. Read at your own risk.] Quick transmigration, no romance, strong female lead, scumbag takedowns, satisfying revenge [Max-level expert enters the beginner’s village and shows no mercy to scumbags] Qin Xia is a once-in-a-century cultivation prodigy, but a misunderstanding lands her in hell. After enduring endless suffering, she becomes a ghost immortal. For over a thousand years, the ghost immortal r 119Reads8.7Score—Shelves
36. 86 大 The Big Shot Runs Wild With a Blade in Quick Transmigration Worlds 大佬提刀在快穿世界横行霸道 Playing the Passerby扮途人Modern Romance353k WordsCompleted Just as Qiu Chi was about to grab a knife and hack apart the man who kept a lookalike mistress while claiming to love her, she was forcibly bound to a System. The System tells her to transmigrate through three thousand worlds and play the female lead in angst novels. Qiu Chi gives it a bewildered stare: ??? An angst-novel heroine? Who the hell would dare torment me? I’d hack them to pieces! System: I clearly bound an angst-novel heroine, not the heroine of a power fantasy. So why is she acting l 154Reads8.7Score—Shelves
37. 87 快 Quick Transmigration: Make Way, I'm About to Put on a Show! 快穿：都让让，我要开始装了！ A Pot of Chaos Porridge混沌一锅粥Ancient Romance597k WordsCompleted [System x powerful lead x mysticism x no romance] Modern tycoon Jiang Wu dies in a sudden car accident. Good news: She gets bound to a system. Bad news: It's the more children, more blessings System. Having worked her way up from the bottom, Jiang Wu refuses, first, to be anyone's wage slave again and, second, to bear children for a man. From then on, the more children, more blessings System finds a whole new purpose. Ancient palace intrigue Jiang Wu transmigrates as a low-ranking beauty. She sm 936Reads8.4Score102Shelves
38. 88 快 Quick Transmigration: The Host Only Wants to Cultivate Immortality 快穿：宿主大佬只想修仙 Summer夏日Ancient Romance331k WordsCompleted [No romance + feel-good power fantasy + strong female lead + formidable protagonist] A certain System is in tears. It picked up a nobody from a remote mountain village who hadn't even survived a tribulation, only to find out she's a big shot? But why does this big shot only know how to cultivate immortality!? It can't stand by and watch. Big shot, you should be taking down scumbag men, killing scheming transmigrators, crushing the white moonlight, and serving up some face-slapping... Qin Ying gl 206Reads8.3Score—Shelves
39. 89 栖 Bough of the Phoenix Perch 栖凰枝 Lu Shiqi鹿时七Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Short drama now available. Search "A Sigh for Youth". Starring Mi Qi and Wang Kang] Also known as "I'm a Psychology PhD, and I'll Slaughter My Way Through the Palace" Palace intrigue + sweet romance + not both leads' first relationship + heroine focused on her career On her first day after transmigrating into the harem, Jiang Xinyue fell out of favor. Everyone said she was nothing but a pretty face, a vase. On her second day after transmigrating into the harem, Jiang Xinyue regained the emperor 36.9kReads9.4Score4.3kShelves

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    Who wouldn't love a female lead who's focused solely on her career? 🥰🥰🥰🥰

40. 90 大 The Splendor of Great Zhou 大周风华录 Is Wasabi Spicy?芥末辣不辣Ancient Romance4.3M WordsCompleted After three years of drought, the land was strewn with the dead. Her parents sold Qin Fengyao as a “two-legged sheep.” Faced with certain death, she sold herself into servitude and escaped with the human traffickers. Sold to the Chang family, she accompanied their eldest daughter through confiscation of their property and desperate flight, then their restoration to favor. She helped the young lady establish herself in her husband’s household, became embroiled in the struggle for the throne, and, 21.3kReads9.2Score2.8kShelves

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    "Do you know the art of flattery to kill?" "First, lower someone's guard, then strike." "My mother-in-law always treated my eldest sister-in-law the best, hoping she would have a son soon, promising to hand over the reins of the household to her once she had one." "This has two advantages: first, it lowers my sister-in-law's guard, which is why she became infertile after drinking the herbal soup my mother-in-law gave her; second, whoever becomes the matriarch will be hated by my sister-in-law and won't be able to take that position." "She can still control everything from behind the scenes." "The power to take someone's life with a single word is incredibly tempting, more effective than any elixir of youth."

41. 91 重 Reborn in the 1970s: An Educated Youth in the Great Northern Wilderness 重生七零：知青在北大荒 Yi Ziyan易子晏Modern Romance5.0M WordsOngoing He Siwei is reborn in the year she went to the countryside. She refuses to go to the farm where her childhood sweetheart works, as she did in her previous life. Instead, she chooses a firewood farm in the mountains. Armed with the traditional Chinese medicine skills she learned by her father’s side and her knack for identifying herbs, she begins her life as an educated youth sent to the countryside in the Great Northern Wilderness. 27.9kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves

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    It's really good, a very satisfying read.

42. 92 小 The Little Taoist Nun Has a Rebellious Streak 小道姑一身反骨 20/100 Vision视力零点二一Ancient Romance747k WordsCompleted “As a hired assassin, killing is my specialty. I make sure my clients go peacefully.” “Be good. You don't need to cover your head. I'd never ruin that pretty face of yours. That would make it harder to carry your head to the Judicial Office and collect the reward.” The moon slanted over the river as night settled in. Mist hung thick in the air, dreamlike and hazy. Only the dim oil lamp hanging from a covered boat on the Qiantang River cast a faint, wavering glow. A small gray-robed Taoist, impos 24.6kReads9.5Score3.8kShelves

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    One of Tomato's favorite novels, a perfect recommendation. The female lead is wise beyond her years, and her humorous writing style brings tears to the eyes. She's definitely a strong female lead, with a tightly woven plot. When danger strikes, it's not the typical story where a male lead suddenly appears to save you.

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44. 94 香 A Fragrant Pig Becomes a Beauty, and the Crown Prince Gets a Darling 香猪变美人，太子多了一个小娇娇 Fo Xi佛肸Ancient Romance521k WordsCompleted [A link between past and present + a deposed crown prince + a little pig who wants to repay a debt of gratitude + power struggles + devoted love + both leads are each other's first] (P.S. If you're listening to the audiobook and the hero's name doesn't sound right, try switching to another voice.) Ever since Wen Si became self-aware, she knew she was a little fragrant pig who never grew any bigger. Compared with other pigs, who only knew how to oink, she was a superior pig. She could think, und 208Reads8.8Score104Shelves
45. 95 内 The Entertainment Industry's Street Drifter: I Took Bandits on a Wild Ride from the Start 内娱街溜子，开局带劫匪狂飙 I'm a Kitty是猫猫吖丶Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted For female readers! Complete!! [Entertainment industry + absurd comedy + shamelessness + memes + face-slapping + mysticism + no logic] After transmigrating, Lu Ling became a washed-up actress. From the start, she had to deal with a cheating scumbag boyfriend, being blacklisted by her company, and a ruthless rejection from a director... Faced with this thoroughly unfriendly world, Lu Ling decided to go completely crazy and wreck everyone’s day. And so the entertainment industry gained a new menac 43.5kReads9.0Score5.8kShelves

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