Sweet Romance, Independent and Strong-Willed Characters, No Clichés 甜文+性格自立自强+不套路

1. 1 惹 Offending the Imperial Daughter 惹金枝 Kong Liu空留Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted (Film and television rights have been sold. The physical book will be available for preorder on July 10 at 19:00.) Shi Buyu was born smiling. At that moment, lightning flashed and thunder roared, collapsing a row of outbuildings in the Shi family compound. Days of torrential rain brought devastating floods and countless victims. Rumors soon spread through the capital that she was a disaster star sent into the world. But she was as precocious as a demon, with a photographic memory, and learned bo 254.1kReads9.7Score29.8k14d adds

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   [Resurrection × High-IQ Heroine] A jinx descended upon the world? The three-year-old "deceased" youngest daughter of the Shi family rises from the ashes! On the night the entire Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion was destroyed, she smiled from the window, drinking in the wind and clouds, stirring up the chessboard of the world with the name of a jinx. This precocious and enchanting girl will use her overwhelming wisdom to make the entire dynasty pay for the rumors!

2. 2 两 Two Lives of Joy: The Duke's Legitimate Daughter Is Truly Unrestrained 两世欢：公府嫡女她是真的狂 Dancing Sunflower跳舞的向日葵Ancient Romance667k WordsCompleted (Rebirth power fantasy + married across two lifetimes + palace and household intrigue + political machinations) Ye Liujin once thought she was the happiest young lady in Shengjing. Her aunt was just one step away from becoming empress. Her elder brother was the illustrious Duke of Shanguo, commanding an army of two hundred thousand, while her elder sister was a brave and battle-hardened warrior admired by all, both in court and beyond. She herself had been betrothed in infancy to the Third Princ 17.7kReads9.0Score4.6k14d adds

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   This is a female-centric, empowering novel where the female protagonist is reborn and changes the fates of the male protagonist, her brother, and her sister. I especially love the character of her sister, a great general. The female characters in the story are all distinct, independent of men, and all have happy endings.

3. 3 王 The Princess Consort’s Snack Shop 王妃的零食铺子 The Kitten Doesn't Eat Oranges小猫不吃橙子Ancient Romance419k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Food + Princess Consort + Marriage First, Love Later + No Pocket Dimension + Heartwarming] Su Lele owns a snack shop. One day, she transmigrates to ancient times into the family of an official. With a harmonious family and a comfortable life, she decides to return to her old trade and start making snacks, beginning with retail sales. Her goal is to open snack shops all across the Great Yun Kingdom. Hawthorn rolls, potato chips, fish balls, grilled shrimp, little dried fish, pin 4.2kReads8.9Score31514d adds

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   Sweet romance novel is here! Both the male and female leads are independent, the female lead has her own career, the plot is fresh, and the characters are intelligent. ╰(*´`*)╯

4. 4 世 Young Lord, Your Child’s Mother Says She’s a Widow 世子，你孩子娘说她是寡妇 Third Lady三娘子Ancient Romance314k WordsCompleted [Food + farming + street stalls and shops + raising an adorable child] A soft on the outside but tough on the inside young widow and a cold on the outside but warm and fragrant within dashing young noble Sheng Qiao is troubled. After being single her whole life in both incarnations, her first time gets her pregnant. She doesn't even know who the child's father is, but a newborn needs to be registered. Hmm, she'll just invent a dead husband and become a widow. Huh? Who are you? Why do you look so 3.8kReads9.1Score48514d adds
5. 5 和 After My School Bully and I Swapped Pain, I Was Stunned! 和校霸互换痛感后，我麻了！ Mu Ashuang慕阿双Modern Romance310k WordsCompleted [Soft, adorable top student × Ice-cold school bully + They share each other’s pain + The bully gets clingy later on + Unrequited love comes true] Yi Luchu thinks she might be possessed by a ghost. Every now and then, she gets beaten black and blue by thin air. The next time she wakes up from the pain, she tells her mom to call an exorcist! Meanwhile, when Yi Luchu gets her period, the school bully nearly dies from the pain in bed! One day, Yi Luchu happens to hear one of the bully’s lackeys say, 961Reads8.9Score11114d adds
6. 6 中 I Won Ten Million! I Quit on the Spot and Went Home to Farm 中奖一千万！我直接辞职回家种田 True Lord Jiuyang九阳真君Modern Romance373k WordsCompleted [The animated comic adaptation is now available] [No awful characters + Rural life + Farming + Slow-paced + Male lead marries into the female lead's family + Male lead is lovestruck] P.S. The male lead appears around chapter twenty. Song Ying hits the jackpot: she buys a lottery ticket and wins 15 million! She takes home 12 million after taxes. A fortune has fallen from the sky! Song Ying chooses to lie flat and return home to farm. She spends five million buying several apartments in the city, 19.9kReads9.1Score1.2k14d adds
7. 7 落 Falling into His Trap 落入他的圈套 Wild Strawberry野草莓Modern Romance390k WordsCompleted The short drama adaptation, “Caught in His Trap,” is now streaming. Rugged man x sweet girl [sweet romance] Auto mechanic and a little rich girl returning to her hometown After Su Yuan returned to her hometown, she happened to rent a place from Chen Lie. From that day on, the man forcefully pushed his way into her life. Su Yuan thought Chen Lie was a little rough around the edges, but he really knew how to treat a woman well. It was also the first time she had ever fallen so madly for a man. Wha 17.1kReads9.3Score1.7k14d adds
8. 8 闺 Best Friends Transmigrated Together, Married into the Same Family, and Joined Forces to Reform Their Mother-in-Law 闺蜜齐穿，嫁一家，一起改造婆婆 Wholeheartedly for the Screen一心为影Ancient Romance393k WordsCompleted After getting drunk at a KTV, three best friends, Liu Wanyun, Guan Xiaoyu, and Zhang Xinyue, accidentally fell into the water on their way home and transmigrated to an unknown ancient era. Wanting to stick together and live as a group, they schemed to marry the three wealthy Shen brothers, becoming sisters-in-law. While sisters-in-law in other families fought until the household was in chaos, these three were as thick as thieves. They challenged their mother-in-law’s authority every day while te 39.1kReads8.8Score4.1k14d adds
9. 9 穿 Reborn as the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Mother 穿成虐文男主他妈 The Little Cat Fell Asleep小猫睡了Modern Romance159k WordsCompleted [Short story contest] [Foodie fiction] [A sweet little treat] Overnight, she transmigrates into a book with a baby in her belly whose father is unknown. On closer inspection, the baby turns out to be the male lead from the tragic novel she read before. He's a poor little thing whose father doesn't care for him and whose mother doesn't love him. Penniless, Ding Sha relies on her excellent cooking skills to become the food goddess of a construction site. Spicy diced chicken, cured pork with garlic 31.7kReads9.6Score4k14d adds
10. 10 奶 My Adorably Sweet Husband Is a Rugged Man 奶萌老公是糙汉 It's Shushu是舒舒啊Modern Romance107k WordsCompleted A delicate, soft dance teacher × a new business tycoon who looks like a sweet, baby-faced cutie but is really a rugged guy Yao Yao comes from a family of artists and has loved dancing since childhood. After graduating from college, she teams up with a younger schoolmate to open a dance studio. She's always loved cute and cuddly things, so it's love at first sight when she meets her schoolmate's baby-faced older brother. Fortune is on her side: he falls for her at first sight, too. He pursues her 149Reads8.4Score—14d adds
11. 11 修 The Side Character in a Cultivation Novel Becomes Everyone's Favorite Through Farming 修仙文路人甲通过种田成为万人迷 Clouds Return and Wander云归游Ancient Romance691k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + cultivation + becoming beautiful + everyone’s favorite + male rivalry and romantic battleground] After spending ten years as a menial disciple in the cultivation world, Yu Wanqing finally realizes she has fallen into a cultivation harem novel full of female rivalry! Watching the female side characters meet miserable ends, she decides to cling to her golden finger and keep a low profile while she grows stronger. Her golden finger is an unbelievably powerful farming d 13.4kReads8.3Score1.5k14d adds

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    It's sweet and makes me feel at ease.

12. 12 凤 Crowned in a Phoenix Robe! The Sniveling Little Crybaby Wins the Tyrant’s Heart 凤袍加身！软叽叽小哭包萌翻暴君 Flowers Meet Bitter Wine花逢苦酒Ancient Romance419k WordsCompleted [Transported into another world + Disguised as a man + Farming and food + War] The Fan army brings back a delicate-looking young man to serve in the military. One moment, the young man is sobbing prettily; the next, he shoots the enemy commander dead, shouting “Die, you bastard!” with every shot and leaving everyone trembling. That’s not all. He knows military strategy, can farm, and is a fantastic cook. He becomes a powerful minister trusted by the tyrant, who even awards him a princess as his 709Reads8.9Score10414d adds

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    This book is so good!!!

13. 13 嘘 Shh, the King Is Hibernating: His Runaway Cartoonist 嘘，国王在冬眠之他的在逃漫画家 Erkang Who Loves Coconut Chicken爱吃椰子鸡的尔康9k WordsCompleted Hush, the King Is Hibernating: His Runaway Comic Artist 35Reads—Score414d adds

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    It's so sweet, so incredibly sweet, so beautiful, it's just too sweet!

14. 14 她 Her Heart Goes Pitter-Patter (Complete in Two Volumes) 她心跳怦怦（全二册） Ji Nanfang纪南方Modern Romance430k WordsCompleted The year Chen Ji joined the table tennis training center, the team had a rule: no dating before the age of twenty-three. Anyone who broke it had to sign up for extra training every day. Chen Ji scoffed. “Is table tennis not fun enough, or are the matches not challenging enough?” Then his childhood sweetheart, Lin Zhaozhao, confessed her feelings to him. A fan asked, “God of Ice, why are you signing up for extra training every day?” Chen Ji: “…” Don't ask. The answer is that he just loves exercis 461Reads9.5Score10414d adds

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    Childhood sweethearts, devoted to each other, their small interactions overflowing with love.

15. 15 献 Offering to the Abyss 献京渊 Qi Yi Zi七一子Ancient Romance528k WordsCompleted [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 24.3kReads9.5Score3.9k14d adds

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16. 16 抛 Casting the Bait 抛饵 Mu Mu Cuo木木错Modern Romance402k WordsCompleted Zhou Julin was an unattainable dream from Yu Jiao’s youth. A pampered young master, raised in luxury, with a devastatingly handsome face and a fatal allure. He had countless admirers, yet always turned them away with indifferent eyes. At first, she was just another ordinary classmate of his. After she made the first move, she became the secret bedmate he kept seeing behind everyone’s backs. Yu Jiao thought that was as far as things between them could go. After all, the aloof and distinguished Yo 52.1kReads9.4Score6.7k14d adds
17. 17 暗 The Eleventh Spring of My Secret Love 暗恋他的第十一年春 Don't Call Me Beautiful别叫我美丽Modern Romance327k WordsCompleted 51.3kReads9.6Score7.5k14d adds

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    Love has an echo: a romantic journey spanning ten years, unrequited love finally comes true! A heart fluttering at sixteen, a reunion at twenty-four, marriage at twenty-six—Shen Zhuying spent ten years waiting for a perfect ending with Fu Sizhuo. He was the unattainable sun of her youth, the obsession she was willing to repeat a year of high school for, the love letter she dared not hand at her graduation ceremony. But fate took a turn; a downpour, a bouquet of white roses, brought them together again. She thought this was the end of her unrequited love, unaware that it was the beginning of his long-planned scheme. "Fu Sizhuo, would you like to get to know me?" "Shen Zhuying, it's a pleasure to meet you." From school uniforms to wedding dresses, from one-sided crush to mutual commitment, this belated response is sweeter than first love, more real than a fairy tale. If you too have ever felt a heart flutter for someone for years, this book will make you believe—all waiting will eventually be answered.

18. 18 暗 Dark Top-Tier Star Reborn: The Maniac Beauty Turns the Tables 暗黑顶流重生：疯批美人逆向审判 Orobashi of Tengu Island天风岛的奥罗巴斯Modern Romance215k WordsCompleted Main title: Reborn as a Dark Top-Tier Star: The Unhinged Beauty's Reverse Trial Subtitle: “The More They Hate Me, the Stronger I Get! I Tear Through the Entertainment Industry with My Army of Haters” Synopsis: [Two powerful leads + System + entertainment industry + mystery and revenge] After Jiang Mian dies, she is reborn as a washed-up nobody and bound to the “Reverse Trial System.” The harsher the online abuse she receives, the more trial authority she can redeem, letting her make the culprits 1Reads—Score—14d adds

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19. 19 在 Loving You in Planck Time 在普朗克时间爱你 Serene and Tranquil Pavilion清净怡然阁Modern Romance209k WordsCompleted [Strong Female Lead] [100-Day Countdown for a Female CEO] [Based on Real Experiences] [Primarily Realistic Fiction] [Sci-Fi and Mystery Elements] [Workplace] [Business Rivalry] [Strong Female Protagonist] [First Love] [Youthful Memories] [Childhood Friends] Shen Qixian, the CEO of a high-tech company, dreams on the same date every year about Lin Ye, her lover who has been missing for a long time. Every time, she wakes at exactly the same moment. But this year's dream sends her on an adventure. S 11Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Both the male and female leads are strong, based on real experiences.

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