The Best of Historical Romance, Transmigration or Rebirth, with a Fast-Paced Plot 古言天花板，穿越重生都可，剧情不拖拉
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Reborn: The Princess Goes on a Killing Spree 重生：嫡公主杀疯了
Xiao Jinrui, the legitimate princess of Great Qi and daughter of Empress Yuan, grew up cherished and adored. But it turned out everything had been part of a scheme. Once the emperor she had personally helped ascend the throne had secured his position, he wanted her dead: Only then did she learn that there was more to the deaths of her mother's family. A great fire burned every sin to ash. Reborn, she would have her revenge, change who ruled the empire, and wield power over all! But then the
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Reborn: The Noblewoman of the General's Household Captivates the World 重生后，将门贵女她艳冠天下
In her previous life, her father and brothers were framed, imprisoned, and died unjustly. Song Qingyun was also forced to drink poisoned wine by her fiancé and died a horrible death. When she awoke, she discovered she had been reborn at the age of fourteen. Back then, she was still the most cherished young lady in all of Jingzhou, envied by everyone. This time, she would repay every debt and avenge every wrong. She would spare none of those who had betrayed her in her previous life! She would te
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The Reborn Legitimate Daughter: Destined for the Throne 重生嫡女：天命所归
[Revenge + payback + putting scumbags in their place + sweet romance] Xie Anran was born to privilege. Her father is a chancellor who holds power over the court, and her maternal grandfather is a renowned general. She never imagined she would end up dying a miserable death in the Cold Palace. “Goodbye, dear sister. Rest easy on your way,” her half-sister says with a sweet smile. “From now on, everything you have will be mine.” Her sister, who never competed with her and was always gentle and swe
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The Reborn Legitimate Daughter Returns 重生嫡女归来
Banxia, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Medicine, was murdered by her sister and the Crown Prince she loved. When she awakens, she has been reborn a few days before returning to the capital. With the memories of her past life, she tears away her sister’s beautiful facade and exposes her stepmother’s false piety. The capital says she’s a country bumpkin, but she’s more fashionable than anyone. They call her a village girl, but she’s more graceful than them all. They say she’s illiterate
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The Broken Palace Walls 破宫墙
[Alternate setting + both leads have no past romantic relationships] The capital had its “Five Tyrants,” with Princess Anle, Li Qingyao, at the top. Rumor had it that the princess was spoiled and arrogant, always carrying a long whip at her side. She was also doted on by the emperor and favored by the Noble Consort, making her the most cherished person in the Great Yan Dynasty. Yet this high-and-mighty princess died a tragic death in a conspiracy. What was most despairing was that the mastermind
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The Worth of the Legitimate Heir 嫡重
She is the most cherished legitimate daughter of the general's household, and the most notorious, haughty young woman in the capital. He said, “I love your little temper.” He said, “Let me take your hand and tie up your hair for you until we're old. What do you say?” He said, “If I ever ascend the throne, I'll abolish the imperial harem and love only you!” So she gave him all her love and staked her family's power, all to help him achieve his ambition. But once he had secured his throne, he held
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The Princess Faked Her Death After Jumping Off a Cliff, and the Prince Went Mad 王妃跳崖假死后，王爷疯了
[Complete. No golden finger, no System, no pocket dimension.] Also known as The Prince Dotes on His Concubine and Neglects His Wife, So His Reborn Princess Consort Runs Away She Fought to the Death with the White Lotus in the Prince's Mansion, While the Moonlight in Her Husband's Heart Smiled [Domestic and palace intrigue + medical skills + power struggles over the throne + she suffers first, then the villains get what's coming to them + no rekindling old flames + a relentless pursuit of his wif
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After the Emperor Is Reborn, the Empress Becomes the Apple of His Eye 陛下重生后，娘娘成了掌中娇
“Your Majesty, if there is another life, I hope never to have known you, and never to meet you again in any lifetime.” Yujing Chen detested her. Yet the last thing she did before dying was take the fatal sword strike for him. She said, “Your Majesty, could my life leave a vivid mark in your heart?” Perhaps Heaven believed his task was unfinished and granted him a new life. After being reborn... he discovered that she had once been bright and beautiful, too... [No System + No transmigration + Mal
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Reborn: The Ruthless Poison Consort 重生毒妃狠绝色
She helped her husband become emperor, but on the day he took the throne, he had her entire family executed. Reborn five years earlier, with her parents still alive and her wedding yet to come, Ye Muxi swears to avenge herself and make up for the regrets of her past life. Once a timid young lady bullied by everyone, she transforms brilliantly with five years of memories, protecting her younger brother, crushing scoundrels, and planning every step to seize the advantage. But how did she accidenta
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Reborn as the Legitimate Eldest Daughter 重生嫡长女
In her previous life, Lu Guanlan was disfigured and betrothed to the much-maligned Third Prince. She devoted herself to helping her husband overcome every obstacle and ascend the throne, only to be banished to the Cold Palace and die with her heart cut out. Reborn in a new life, she is once again the legitimate eldest daughter of the Minister’s residence. Her stepmother wants to become the legal wife? Her half-sister wants a good match? Her faithless lover wants to fight for the throne? Not a ch
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Reborn, the Princess Consort Became Clingy 重生后，王妃成了粘人精
(Complete, ready to read) In her past life, she trusted the wrong man, a scoundrel, and caused the deaths of her father and brother, as well as her husband. She cursed herself for being foolish and blind. Never did she imagine that Heaven would give her another chance at life. This time, she decides to cling to her husband and protect her father and brother. She will never let the tragedy of her past life happen again. In her last life, the princess consort was a spoiled handful. In this life, s
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On Our Wedding Night, the Reborn Prince Knocked Over Her Contraceptive Soup 新婚夜，重生王爷打翻她的避子汤
[Rebirth + Sweet Romance + Feel-Good Wish Fulfillment + Devoted Couple] Ye Chen is reborn on his wedding night with his Qiu'er. In his previous life, he couldn't even keep his Qiu'er's remains safe. This time, he will stay by her side every moment. Her greatest regret in her previous life was never having children of her own. This time, he will have lots of children with her. She was trapped in the capital all her life before. This time, he will travel across the land of the Nine Provinces with
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Reborn, I Promise You a Lifetime of Joy 重生，许你一世倾欢
(Both leads reborn + scheming prince + palace and household intrigue + punishing scumbags + physician heroine) In her previous life, Ye Ruan was hopelessly devoted to Prince Xuan, Jun Li. But at the Mid-Autumn banquet, the drunken Prince Jing, Jun Zhan, took her innocence. To avenge herself, she pretended to marry into Prince Jing’s household. While he was away on campaign, she forged the late emperor’s edict and elevated the scumbag to the highest position. But once everything had settled, the
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Reborn: The Poisonous Woman Returns 重生之毒女归来
In her past life, she was the legitimate daughter of a general’s household. She gave her heart to the wrong man and helped the scoundrel ascend the throne, only to be ground to dust while her family died horribly. Reborn with a heart full of hatred, she will destroy the scoundrel’s treacherous schemes and tear away the hypocritical mask of the wicked woman. She will answer injury with injury and hatred with hatred. The scoundrel has feelings for her in this life? She’ll slap him in the face. He
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Reborn Noble Daughter: The Regent's Beloved Is Absolutely Stunning 重生嫡女：摄政王的心尖尖超绝色
When her half-sister asked with a sweet smile, “Does it hurt?” When her scumbag lover gouged out her eyes, leaving her weeping blood; when her aunt conspired with an inside accomplice to frame the General’s residence, causing all 370 people in the household to be executed, Mu Xiaoxiao regretted everything. She had let wolves into her home, bringing herself to this end, and now she died with regrets. Mu Xiaoxiao swore that if she had another life, she would tear those treacherous beasts limb from
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Lord Shaoqing 少卿大人
Although Shen Liuting was the eldest daughter of the prime minister’s household, she had an unusual dream: to travel through every kingdom and write a book about her journeys. On her fifteenth birthday, Shen Liuting packed her bags in the middle of the night, took her banknotes, and really did leave the country. That journey lasted a full three years... When Shen Liuting returned home on her eighteenth birthday, her parents told her they had already found her a fiancé and even had their birth da
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The Master of Disguise (Complete in Two Volumes) 变脸师爷（全两册）
Shen Bai, a famous young gentleman from the capital, is sent to the obscure little city of Bian to serve as a low-ranking county magistrate. To keep life from getting too dull, he hires a strange young man who has piqued his curiosity, Lu Yuanqing, as his assistant at the county office. With Lu Yuanqing’s help, Shen Bai solves one strange case after another: a naked female corpse leads to two unsolved cases from years ago; a wildly popular book turns out to be linked to a series of murders; a re
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The Bride-to-Be 将嫁
Three years ago, to pacify the western frontier, he married the daughter of the Governor-General of Yongzhou as his empress. But during his lifetime, he met Huo Shiying, the one and only woman of her kind, and the sole female general in the Great Yan dynasty. She doesn't know, and no one else does either, that he has followed her life for twenty whole years. When he was six, he first heard his mother and eldest sister mention her name, and wondered how a two-year-old girl could have been taken t
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I Became a Fussy Old Lady: While Everyone Else Fled the Famine, I Reclaimed the Land 穿成作精老太，别人逃荒我开荒
(No space, no System, no romance. A short drama with the same name has already been released. A warm, rustic story. Everyone says they wouldn’t survive three episodes after transmigrating into a chaotic era. Read this book, and you’ll survive ten more!) She transmigrated into a book, becoming the villainous aunt who abused the protagonist in a male-oriented novel, and was destined to be killed off. Jiang Zhi didn’t cling to the protagonist. She left him behind and relied on her extensive knowled
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Transmigrating to Farm: I Became a Landlord in Ancient Times 穿越种田：我在古代当地主
He Li, a junior real estate agent in the modern world, worked for years to buy a car and a house. Then an accident sent her transmigrating to a new world, where her new home is bare as a cupboard, her elder brother is frail, and her mother is a widow. At least her family is close-knit and loving. With no golden finger, no protagonist’s destiny, and no incredible luck, she can only work hard, one step at a time, and ultimately turn her fortunes around. She’ll make her dream of becoming a great la
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After My Divorce, I Reached the Peak of My Life 和离后我走上人生巅峰
When Chunxiao wakes up, she discovers her household is about to turn upside down. Her husband, who has just passed the imperial examinations to become a scholar, actually wants to demote her from wife to concubine for money. He thinks his scheme is foolproof, but she’s no longer the same pushover she used to be. She quickly divorces him and returns to Yanjia Village. Faced with nothing but poverty, she starts building a business with her family. Who says a woman can’t support a household? After
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In the Famine, the Whole Village Chews Tree Bark, but My System Fills My Storeroom with Meat 荒年全村啃树皮，我有系统满仓肉
[Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms.
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With Space in Hand, Food and Drink Are No Worry 空间在手吃喝不愁
Sang Yurou, a young master of traditional Chinese medicine from the 21st century, unexpectedly reborn as the second daughter-in-law of Old Madam Yao in Yao Family Village during the Great Jin Dynasty. The old woman had bought her with a dou of millet. Such is fate... All right, her new family is poor, and her husband, who supposedly joined the army, is missing and may be dead. Still, at least her in-laws are kindhearted. With her pocket dimension at hand, she can farm, treat patients, do busines
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Pearl the Farmer’s Daughter and Her Leisurely Life 农女珍珠的悠闲生活
She knows nothing about farm work or crops, yet she becomes a country girl. The mountains stretch on and on, and the scenery is lovely, with abundant water, but her family is poor and their house is shabby. Her father is simple and honest, her mother is mute, and her younger brother is frail. At least there are no nasty relatives. She has no skills and owns next to nothing, but fortunately, she has a pocket dimension. With her family in tow, she leisurely heads for a brighter future. A handsome
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The Whole Family's Lucky Charm Is Three and a Half, Catching Ghosts on the Run from Famine 团宠锦鲤三岁半，逃荒路上捉鬼忙
[Little darling + adored by everyone + sweet romance + lighthearted + metaphysical arts + alternate setting] The dirt-poor Mu family had gone crazy. It was a famine, and everyone else was rushing to flee, yet they went out of their way to bring home a little girl. Ning Bao carried a tattered cloth bag, a peachwood sword in her right hand and yellowed talisman paper in her left... From then on, the old Mu family was transformed. Grandma Mu, who had been too sick to get out of bed, was up and abou
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I Transmigrated 999 Times and Drove the Mad Tyrant Insane 我穿越999次，逼疯了疯批暴君
With only six months left to live, Tang Wan masters a skill called “Transmigration,” allowing her to travel back and forth between the modern and ancient worlds. On her first transmigration, people mistake her for a ghost… On her ninety-ninth, she nearly dies at the hands of the dog emperor. On her 108th, she “defiles” the emperor’s innocence. After transmigrating time and again, she discovers to her delight that a little dragon energy can extend her life. Tang Wan: “Mooch, mooch, keep mooching
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The Cast-Off Princess's Comeback 下堂王妃逆袭记
“Rong Li, marrying you is already the limit of what I can tolerate. If you dare climb into my bed again, next time you’ll get a divorce decree.” “No need to wait until next time. Write it now.” She was the Chancellor’s daughter, and she’d done every foolish thing imaginable for the man she loved, becoming a laughingstock across the land. She was also a modern special forces instructor, and now she’d arrived in this world in all her glory. How could she let anyone bully her? The prince despised h
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A Bountiful Harvest and Happy Days: The Farmer’s Wife Is His One and Only 良田喜事：独宠小农妻
I woke up in this miserable mountain village and married a hunter. Who says hunters don't own land? The finest fields are practically wild now, with more weeds than crops. No matter, I'll grab a hoe and get to work. Hmm, not bad. This rice variety has a higher yield. What, the villagers want to learn how to grow it too? Of course. We'll clear land and plant cotton, then grow other crops between the rows. Not bad at all. It's not as good as what I had in my previous life, but at least I won't hav
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Divine Doctor with a Pocket Dimension: The Mountain Man Wants a Baby 空间神医：山里汉子来生娃
A famous twenty-first-century surgeon transmigrates to ancient times and becomes the young bride of a farmer. Unfortunately, her husband is paralyzed, and she suddenly finds herself a mother, too. With biased in-laws, bizarre sisters-in-law, and a troublemaking sister-in-law, how is she supposed to get by? Lin Qingyue rolls up her sleeves. To hell with all the monsters and demons: whoever shows up gets a beating. Before long, she's notorious for her fierce temper! She builds a fortune, takes on
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The Capital's Most Notorious Beauty 京城第一祸水
Currently being published [rival suitors in a dramatic love triangle + top-tier schemer + supporting villainess fights back + everyone comes around] [Historical romance + told entirely from the wicked supporting female character’s perspective] ❣️Blurb One Qiao Wanyan learned from a storybook that she was nothing but a wicked supporting character who abandoned her childhood sweetheart and chased after wealth and status. She sowed discord, poisoned her elder sister, and committed every imaginable
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Little Jade 阿琅
A Lang returned to the marquis household in the capital, only to find both her parents dead and herself a mere sparrow living under someone else’s roof. As one demon after another took the stage, scheming and fighting among themselves, she remained unmoved. So what if she was in dire straits? She alone would decide her fate. Why fear the thorns and brambles? My life is mine, not Heaven’s. When the capital is filled with nobles, who in all the land will fail to know your name? Watch as A Lang foi
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Help! The Mind-Reading Tyrant Insists on Spoiling Me 急！有读心术的暴君非要宠我
After she touched the tyrant’s skull, which had been polished into a wine bowl, she unexpectedly transmigrated into the empress who died the most gruesome death in history. Every day, she plotted to kill the tyrant and become empress in her own right, unaware that he could read minds. When the tyrant fell gravely ill, she wept and begged Heaven to let her trade her own years of life for his safety. The tyrant was deeply moved, until he suddenly heard her thoughts: [If he’s so sick, hurry up and
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I Could Easily Rely on My Martial Skills, but My Wife Insists on Using Her Brain 明明可以靠武力，娘子非要靠脑子
[Modern woman in ancient times + transmigration with her body + love after marriage + sweet and satisfying] [A male lead who never stops rescuing his wife + a mindless heroine who kills at the slightest provocation] Jiu Yue, the greatest assassin of the twenty-second century, is blown off a cliff while carrying out a mission. With a splat, she lands in the backward Great Qi Dynasty. The wicked step-grandmother finds Ji Yiqing a wild girl she picked up and makes her his bride, hoping the marriage
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In the Year of the Great Blizzard, I Became the Big Sister Raising Five Little Ones 雪灾年，我穿成五个崽的包子姐姐
[Empress + ensemble cast + farming and infrastructure + strong female lead power fantasy + an insanely powerful golden finger!!!!] Lin Jiahe transmigrates into a book and binds to a multiverse livestream System. Her entire family are cannon fodder whose fortunes were stolen by the original story’s heroine. The harder they work, the more miserable their lives become, while the heroine grows ever luckier! Blizzards bury the roads. Drought and famine leave corpses strewn everywhere. Lin Jiahe is sh
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The First Emperor Overhears My Thoughts: He Unifies the World, Not Just the Six Kingdoms 始皇偷听我心声，不统六国统全球
[Main story has no romance, and is set in an alternate Great Qin. Not everything is historical: a mix of history and comedy] "The final bonus chapter is for readers' satisfaction and has a hint of romance. If that bothers you, feel free to skip it" Good news: Li Jiang transmigrates to the Qin dynasty and gets to see her idol in person. At last, she lays eyes on the legendary ancestor, nearly two meters tall, with thick brows and big eyes. She gets to watch the First Emperor unify the Six Kingdom
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Can You Believe It? The Empress Wrote a Hundred Palace Rules 谁懂啊，娘娘写了一百条宫规
[Palace Intrigue + Ancient-Era Heroine + Reborn Supporting Female Character + Transmigrated Supporting Female Character + Everyone Is Clever + Clear-Eyed Heroine] From ordinary palace candidate to empress. Everyone believes the emperor is devoted to Ning Wanyin. Only Ning Wanyin knows how treacherous and perilous the journey has been. She has survived every step through sheer caution. Lady Tang, reborn: “She killed me in my last life. This time, of course I’ll… make her my friend! Do I really th
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System: The Savage Lands Crown Princess Just Wants to Herd Sheep 系统：蛮荒太子妃只想放羊
Also known as The Ambition Isn't Great: Just You and the World A Qi is clever and innocent. Her eldest brother is honest and just wants enough to eat; her second brother is sharp and wants to see the world. Their aunt is always fierce when chopping wood, their father is a wonderful cook, and their grandfather can recognize twenty characters, though he gets thirteen of them wrong. Their ambitions weren't great, but somehow they ended up winning the world. Content warnings: ...
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