Recommend Me Some Great Palace Intrigue Novels!!! 求好看的宫斗文！！！
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Step by Step to Glory 步步荣宠
Mingyue was sold as a child and became a maid in a marquis’s household. After the young master took an interest in her, she was sent to the palace and became a low-ranking palace maid. Step by step, she rose from palace maid to empress.
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The Beloved Consort's Rise to Power 宠妃升职记
When faced with the selection, An Ruyi is merely a low-ranking daughter of a noble family. To avoid the marriage arranged by her legitimate mother, she has to choose between becoming another man's concubine and becoming the emperor's. Without hesitation, she chooses the latter. Backed by a golden finger in the form of a pocket dimension, she originally only wants to retire in the imperial palace. But even the harem is unsafe, and everyone can bully her. The emperor's favor only puts her in the s
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Empress of the Xie Family 谢家皇后
In her first year in the palace, she is a Talented Lady. In her fifth, she is a Jieyu. In her tenth, she wants to become empress. As empress, she can hold on to everything she treasures and keep it from being taken away. She can protect herself and her child, and she can... stay by his side. This is a road with only one direction: take a single step back, and all will be lost. The bright yellow ceremonial parasol moves forward, and the emperor's procession slowly enters the city gate. A yellow p
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Across the Qing Harem: Somehow, I Ended Up Winning Without Trying 综清穿：一不小心躺赢了
(Alternate Qing Dynasty setting + Space + System + Slow Travel Through Worlds + Strong Female Lead + Feel-Good Story) Her golden finger is seriously overpowered. She can torment anyone she likes, but never the heroine. There may not be a love interest in every world. (A quick heads-up: this is a Qing Dynasty crossover story. The heroine will transmigrate into all kinds of roles. If that's not your thing, feel free to leave. There's no need to tell the author you're dropping the story, or to stic
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The Fertile Imperial Consort: The Emperor’s One and Only Favorite 好孕贵妃：独得圣宠
Noble Consort Jingmin: the highest rank many women in the imperial harem could dream of attaining. But what if it was a posthumous title? Who would want that? Given another chance, Wanran had no desire to become empress. She only wanted everyone who had harmed her in her previous life to receive their due punishment, and for her children to live in peace, never again to suffer through those dark days. As for the emperor, she would never again give him her whole heart.
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The Spoiled Consort’s Daily Face-Slapping 宠妃打脸日常
Suo Chuo Luo Yunxi was reborn, and she finally saw things clearly. What she had thought of as devotion had been nothing but a joke to everyone else... Her cousin was after wealth and status! Her family was after its former glory! And the man who was her husband in name only was after a brilliant future, while still unable to forget his old flame! She alone had given her heart to the wrong people, and paid for it by losing everything. If that's how it was, she'd lock her heart away and devote her
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A Palace Maid’s Daily Struggles 宫女奋斗日常
Ling Huan has skin as smooth as ice and looks like a goddess, yet she has no interest in power and thinks only of leaving the palace. In the end, neither she nor her child meets a good end. Given another chance, her goal is to raise her child well and become Empress Dowager herself. A palace-intrigue story with a strong female lead. The heroine is ruthless and clever. A thoroughly satisfying read.
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Palace Beauty 宫姝
She dared not love too deeply, afraid it would all turn out to be nothing but a dream. She thought that once she entered the imperial palace, she would be like the other consorts, scheming every day to win the emperor's favor; She thought that once she entered the imperial palace, she would be like the other consorts, with invisible blood staining her hands; She thought that once she entered the imperial palace, she would be like the other consorts. In the end, it was only what she had imagined.
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Bound by Spring 缚春情
[The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef
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Ninefold Brocade 九重锦
Household and palace intrigue, with the leads not both being each other's first. A fictional setting, with all ranks and titles made up. A heroine who grows over time and isn't blinded by love. After being suppressed for more than a decade, a concubine-born daughter has her fate rearranged overnight. Entering the prince's manor only fuels her ambition. Her birth father ignores her, allowing her stepmother to torment her and her mother for half their lives without ever offering them the slightest
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
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Bewitching the Golden Branch 惹金枝
(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
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You Want Me as a Concubine? I’ll Marry the Crown Prince Instead and Destroy That Wretched Couple 逼我当妾？我转嫁太子噶了狗男女
[Published as "Love Takes You into His Heart", available on Taobao, Douyin, and Pinduoduo] [Palace and household intrigue + reborn revenge + devoted husband] In her previous life, Shen Ruoxi devoted herself to marrying Prince Qi, Murong Yu. At home, she exhausted herself managing his household; outside, she knelt and begged her father and brothers to help him ascend the throne. She even gave up her place as his princess consort to please him, willingly becoming a concubine. She gave him everythi
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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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The Consort Is All Charm and Cunning, Scheming Her Way to the Top 娘娘又茶又媚，一路宫斗上位
Signed for print publication In the third year of the Yifeng era, a concubine-born daughter of the Ningyang Marquis’s household enters the palace. The palace is a vast, treacherous place, where the one thing you must never do is give your heart away. Ning Shuyan is clear-eyed: she wants wealth and prestige, along with the emperor’s favor. For three years, she carefully plots each step, wins the emperor’s attention, and rises from Talented Lady to Noble Consort. Rumor has it that the emperor only
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Your Highness! The Princess Consort Has Run Off with the Side Consort Again 王爷！王妃又带侧妃跑了
Gu Yi went to sleep and woke up transmigrated to a place called Prince Pingnan’s manor. Still bewildered, she caught sight of the handsome prince. But wasn’t the prince’s secondary consort even prettier? Somewhere else, the prince suddenly felt that something was wrong. Why did his consort keep sneaking out, and taking the secondary consort with her? Was there something wrong with him? It seemed that, in her eyes, beautiful women were more appealing. So where did that leave him, the prince?
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My Best Friend Became the Empress Dowager in a Marriage for Luck, While I’m Begging to Be Rescued from the Cold Palace 闺蜜穿成冲喜太后，我在冷宫求捞
Best friends transmigrate together + two strictly one-on-one couples + both couples are faithful to each other + Xie Junyuan and Shu Man + Ji Tingyu and Yan Xia Shu Man had some bad luck: as soon as she transmigrated, she landed in the Cold Palace. A reborn villainess poisoned her, and the Cold Palace’s queen bee tried to lay down the rules. Shu Man had planned to keep her head down, until she found out her best friend was the Empress Dowager. Then why the hell should I keep my head down? Let’s
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My Best Friend Has Superpowers and a Pocket Dimension 异能闺蜜有空间
Su Lingqiao, Qin Shumian, and Xia Jianian had planned to scrape by in the apocalypse, but their special abilities made them targets for exploitation. Unwilling to die at the hands of zombies, they chose to blow themselves up. They thought there was no way they could survive, but instead they transmigrated to an alternate dynasty, only to find themselves fleeing famine from the start. The three best friends wailed in despair. What the heck?! Fleeing famine? No problem at all. What if they ran out
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Hilarious and Satisfying: Why Would You Mess with That Crazy Princess? 爆笑爽文你惹王妃那个癫婆干吗
Already adapted into a short drama. Search for the heroine’s name to watch it. Two more versions are waiting to premiere. (Unhinged + hilarious + both leads are chaste + wins hearts and bodies + magic space + satisfying revenge + rival suitors sent to the doghouse) She transmigrates and immediately has to bring a groom good luck? And she’s supposed to wed a chicken? She stabs the ceremonial chicken right through and throws up her arms, shouting, “Get on my nerves and I’ll damn well turn this ent
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Reborn: I Became Crown Princess by Stepping on His Moonlight 重生后，踩着白月光成了太子妃
In her previous life, the empress harmed the entire Xie family for her own selfish desires, sentencing them all to execution. Only Xie Shuhua managed to escape by sheer luck. To get revenge, Xie Shuhua entered the palace as a maid. She spent fifteen years navigating its treacherous waters before finally killing the empress herself and avenging her family. She, too, was pierced by a thousand arrows. When she opened her eyes again, Xie Shuhua discovered that she had returned to the age of sixteen,
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Empress Dowager Cixi and Her Three Favored Eunuchs 慈禧皇后与她的三个宠爱太监
[Eunuchs + Palace Secrets + Empress Dowager Cixi + Court Intrigue] From the time Empress Dowager Cixi entered the palace to the day she ruled from behind the curtain, she shared an unusual relationship with three eunuchs: An Dehai, Li Lianying, and Xiao Dezhang. They were like master and servants, like friends, and more than anything, like old companions. She doted on the three eunuchs, who relied on her favor to do as they pleased, throw their weight around, and take part in court affairs. This
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From Yongzheng's Princely Residence to the Greatest Emperor of All Time 乾隆从雍邸皇子到千古一帝
[Political Intrigue + Harem Rivalries + Factional Strife + Romance + Emperor] Hongli ascended the throne at twenty-five and ruled for sixty years, making him the longest-reigning and longest-lived emperor in history. He governed with diligence, excelling in both civil and military affairs, and led the Qing to the height of its golden age. Yet factional strife raged through the court, conflicts in the deep palace never ceased, and danger lurked behind the splendor. In the end, the golden age ga
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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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