Historical Palace and Family Intrigue, No Rebirth or System, Both Leads Are Smart 古言宫斗、家宅🈚重生🈚系统，男女主智商在线
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The Bright Moon Sends My Longing a Thousand Miles 明月千里寄相思
Su Shang had a handsome fiancé, but she was forced to break off the engagement and marry Shen Huaicheng, who was ten years older than her. Shen Huaicheng thought that as a man of distinguished birth, a powerful minister of the Great Zhou dynasty, and a handsome man, his young wife would surely love him deeply. She treated him with the utmost respect, and he thought that was simply how married couples should be. His mother, younger sister, and cousin made things difficult for his young wife, but
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The Legend of Qingcheng: I Refuse to Be a Concubine 倾城传之恕不为妾
Nie Qingcheng’s mother was her father’s concubine. Having witnessed her mother’s humiliation from childhood, Nie Qingcheng secretly vowed never to become a concubine herself. But she was simply too beautiful. As Gu Yan put it, she was born to be a concubine. So how will Nie Qingcheng’s grand struggle against fate end?
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Who Says an Emperor and Empress Can’t Truly Love Each Other? 谁说帝后不能有真情
Pei Shu seems to have been born under a lucky star. Born into a prominent family, she grew up cherished by loving parents and surrounded by every luxury. Her only setback was when her fiancé fell for someone else and broke off their engagement. Before the people of the capital could even laugh at her, an imperial decree arrived at the Pei residence, and Pei Shu became the empress. From then on, everything went smoothly: her son was named crown prince, later became emperor, and Pei Shu naturally
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Spring Ripples 折春漪
Luo Ning took a blade meant for the Empress Dowager and suffered severe injuries, trading her life for her family's noble title. She went south to recuperate for three years, but when she returned, she discovered that her maternal cousin had taken over her courtyard. Her cousin had even replaced her in every aspect. Luo Ning's parents and elder brother adored her, her grandmother favored her, and even Luo Ning's childhood sweetheart secretly admired her, saying that she surpassed Luo Ning in eve
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Beauty and Strategy in a Land of Rivers and Mountains 山河美人谋
[Proud young lady who always gets even vs. frail, scheming Ninth Prince] Her fiancé was a total jerk, and he was planning to kill her to keep her quiet. Ye Jiao decided to strike first and find a scapegoat while she was at it. She thought the scapegoat would be a transparent, sickly “living corpse,” but rumors were misleading. He was clearly a two-faced, deeply cunning Ninth Prince. After Ye Jiao used the Ninth Prince’s name to punish her scumbag fiancé, Li Ce, the real Ninth Prince: “Miss, I be
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My Empress Weighs Ninety Jin, and Eighty-Five Jin of That Is Rebellion 朕的皇后九十斤，有八十五斤反骨
[Both leads are devoted to each other + contrasting personalities + self-serving heroine + satisfying and sweet + mutual pampering] Lin Xiaoxiao, an overworked corporate drone, transmigrates into the body of a wicked empress. The emperor has ignored her for four years, despises her, and sees her as the greatest shame of his life! The crown prince hates her as his mother and plans to whip her corpse once he grows up and turns evil! The empress dowager is deeply calculating, treating her like a lo
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Transmigrate into a Book: The Cannon-Fodder Original Wife Gives Up and Takes It Easy 穿书之炮灰原配摆烂记
[Not a tragedy, clever heroine, principled male lead, formidable female supporting character, no artificially dumb characters] Song Ci, a modern independent woman, transmigrates into a book and becomes a cannon-fodder first wife who is destined to be executed by being cut in half at the waist at just twenty. She read the whole book and knows the male and female leads are people she can't afford to cross. With no way to escape, she can only lie low. What should Song Guanzhou, the fourth young mad
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Back Then, I Refused to Marry the East Wind (A Companion to A Spring Rain on a Night in a Small Tower, a Historical Pride and Prejudice) 当年不肯嫁东风（《小楼一夜听春雨》姊妹篇，古代版傲慢与偏见)
[Sisters united + rekindled romance + historical ensemble cast] The Ye sisters’ battle to protect their romantic prospects: a long-planned, romantic counterattack. With sisters sticking together, nothing is too difficult! After their mother died, the three Ye sisters broke with their father, who favored his concubine and neglected his wife. They lived in a separate residence and took in A Cuo, the adopted daughter of their late maternal aunt, relying on one another to get by. Four years ago, the
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The Royal Family’s Cherished Daughter-in-Law: The Emperor and Empress Are Shipping Themselves 皇家宠媳：帝后嗑CP啦
[Traditional historical romance + palace and household intrigue + no transmigration or rebirth + alternate history + one-on-one romance + sweet and doting + childhood sweethearts] [Gentle, resilient beauty VS cool, composed Crown Prince] Just three months after Mu Shuangyin's birth mother passed away, Chancellor Mu took a second wife. The new madam brought a son and a daughter into the household. They were said to be the Chancellor's children, and even more remarkably, the twins had been born ab
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I Took My Sister's Place in the Prince's Manor, and My Disabled Husband Fell for Me 替姐姐嫁进王府，残疾夫君沦陷了
[Love after marriage + historical romance + sweet, doting love story + putting scoundrels in their place + having a baby + both leads grow together] Jiang Xintang is the third daughter of the Marquis of Xuanping’s household. She has been unrivaled in beauty since childhood, but her father doesn’t care for her and her mother doesn’t love her. They cast her off to a country estate and leave her to fend for herself. Just after she comes of age, her parents suddenly seek her out and tell her to mar
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Sweet Lady Qingqing 娇娘卿卿
[Food + Sweet Romance + Everyday Parenting] Liang Qingyun married at sixteen. She dutifully paid her respects to her parents-in-law morning and evening, and no one could find fault with her. But she never got pregnant, and her mother-in-law spent all day making cutting remarks about her. Then, just as she finally conceived, her husband coldly handed her a divorce letter! Both husband and wife knew exactly who the child's father was, and Liang Qingyun calmly accepted the situation. But as a divor
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I Became a Villainous Eunuch and Won the World Over with My Goofy Antics 穿成反派太监，靠沙雕被天下争抢
[Goofy Little Eunuch × Long-Suffering Emperor] Mutually Exclusive Romance Yue Fuling transmigrates into the body of a little eunuch, but secretly she is an assassin tasked with killing the emperor. The emperor can even possess her, and has learned all her secrets. This book is also known as: Everyone knows she’s an assassin except her. Yue Fuling panics and packs up to flee in the middle of the night. Halfway through, flames blaze behind her as several groups of pursuers race after her. Yue Fuli
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The Black Lotus Is Reborn, and She Slaughters Her Way Through with the Ailing Young Lord 黑莲花重生，和病弱小公爷杀疯了
Shen Wan is the model of an aristocratic young lady: equally skilled in the literary and martial arts, and a peerless physician. Her parents and five older brothers adore her and treat her like the apple of their eye. Before these very relatives hunt her down and kill her, she too believes she is the beloved young lady everyone dotes on, and the Crown Prince’s sweetheart. Only as she lies dying does she learn the truth: she is not the legitimate daughter of the Shen family at all. The true daugh
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The Book Transmigrator Tears into the Reborn Woman, Even Ripping Out Her Hair Ornaments 穿书女手撕重生女，头花都扯掉了
(Don’t worry about the rating. New books have few readers at first, but it will rise.) [A transmigrated woman takes on a reborn woman] [Fictional ancient setting, no need to nitpick] Gu Qingli transmigrated into a satisfying revenge novel about a woman reborn. She wasn’t the heroine, but the wicked supporting character who had killed her, and the first person the heroine would take revenge on after being reborn. Gu Qingli herself had been born into a political family. She was gentle, quiet, an
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The Road to Glory for a Noble Lady 高门贵女的荣华之路
As the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Xuanping's household, Lin Chuyue married the Fourth Imperial Grandson, Zhou Xiao, as his principal wife at sixteen. At nineteen, she became a princess consort, and at twenty-six, she rose to become the most powerful woman in the Great An Dynasty: the empress. Who hasn't exclaimed that Lin Chuyue was born under a lucky star? Yet the hardships she endured are too painful to speak of. Zhou Xiao's childhood sweetheart of a cousin, a concubine reborn, and a ma
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I Transmigrated and Became the Chancellor's Daughter 我穿越了，成了相国府的千金
Wow! The premise of “I Transmigrated and Became the Chancellor’s Daughter” is so compelling! You’re guaranteed to get your fill of a rich young lady’s comeback! First up, this book, “I Transmigrated and Became the Chancellor’s Daughter,” is practically tailor-made for you! In her previous life, she was killed by her enemies. After she transmigrates, she gets a cheat and becomes the eldest daughter of the chancellor’s household. She enters the palace to take revenge, and the satisfaction is off t
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Reborn as the Villainess to Protect My Family: I’ll Save Grandma and My Sister 重生恶女守家：祖母阿姐我都要
In her previous life, Jiang Zhiyue was deceived by her stepmother into doing many terrible things, earning her a notorious reputation. Her elder siblings died because of her, and she was accused of plotting to kill her grandmother. Her eyes were blinded, her voice stolen, and the tendons in all four limbs severed. In the end, she was thrown into a river, still full of resentment. Her stepmother then used the corpses of her blood relatives to claim her mother's title as Duchess of the State. When
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The Emperor and Empress Fight Every Day to See Who Dies First 帝后每天互殴，看谁先死
Feng Xing is the daughter of Chu Xi’s Grand Marshal, who commands an army of four hundred thousand. Shen Feng has been emperor for just two years. Shen Feng is utterly depraved, ruthless, and cruel. To secure his throne, he decides to marry Feng Xing and make her empress. First, he will fake her death to lure her father to the capital for the funeral. Then he will wipe out her entire family and take control of the Chu Xi army. Feng Xing is a fierce, accomplished warrior who takes whatever she wa
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Before I Knew It, His Majesty Was Helping Me Fight My Household Battles 一不小心，陛下他下场帮我宅斗了
An accident causes Cui Lingyao and the reigning emperor, Pei Jie, to swap souls. On the fifteenth of every month, each must spend a day in the other's body. One side is the chaotic Earl's residence, with a reborn younger cousin, an aunt harboring dark intentions, an uncle shrouded in secrets, and a grandmother who loves to smooth things over. The other is the imperial court, where the empress dowager holds power, Prince Xin is ambitious, the emperor's personal attendant has already defected, an
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Transmigrated as the Coldhearted Princess, Come Here Already 穿越之冷漠王妃快过来
Ever since she was old enough to understand the world, she had felt she didn't belong in it, like a wisp of smoke that would vanish with the gentlest breeze. She was the daughter of the chancellor of Xiyue, yet she was known as a nun, and people said she was cold and heartless. He was an idle prince of Dongyang. Born into wealth, he spent his days confined to a wheelchair. People said he was peerlessly handsome and gentle as jade. What kind of fateful encounter could bring together two people fr
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The Emperor and Empress Reign Supreme for All Time 帝后世无双
Legend says the founding emperor was a bloodthirsty tyrant, and the Great Jin Dynasty was built upon mountains of bones. A curse turned the dragon energy of the imperial mausoleum into baleful energy, dooming every emperor to die before the age of forty-five. The Heavenly Master says that offering up a prince born under the Lone Star fate to feed the baleful dragon in the imperial mausoleum can break the curse. He is that unlucky prince, born under the Lone Star. Enfeoffed as a prince at six, he
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A Ghost Working in Empresses in the Palace 在甄嬛传里打工的鬼
After wandering the world for many years, a young ghost bride dodges the ghost-catching business one day and enters the underworld, only to find herself in another workplace. The story revolves around Empresses in the Palace, with An Lingrong as the starting point as she tries to get by in the imperial harem. There’s just the right amount of a golden finger, and just the right amount of brains. A heads-up for friends who love Huanhuan.
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Quick Transmigration: The Supporting Lady's Rise to Power 快穿之女配上位记
Gu Shuyan enters the world of a novel with a System. From then on, all the pitiful supporting female characters rise up, trample scumbag men underfoot, shout down the white lotuses, reclaim their family fortunes, and reach the pinnacle of life. But while the mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole waits behind. By the time Gu Shuyan realizes what is happening, she has already been thoroughly devoured. A naturally seductive, peerless older man x a super-easily embarrassed little bunny. They traveled
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Spoiling the Curvaceous Beauty 娇宠丰腴美人
Su Yuan was born into the Great Sheng Dynasty, where people prized slender figures. But when she grew up, she was a voluptuous beauty, which made it difficult for her to find a husband. Then, after being selected as a concubine, she was assigned to Prince Qin, Pei Jingheng. Since she was here, she decided to make the best of it. Su Yuan planned to shut the door and live a quiet life of her own. She hadn't expected Pei Jingheng to be handsome and perceptive, with no prejudice against her, even th
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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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After Flirting with the Wrong Man! My Blind Husband Imprisons Me and Kisses Me Madly! 撩错人后！被瞎眼夫君囚宠疯吻！
[Villainess / Both Leads Are Virgins / Reborn / Sweet Romance / Yandere / Blind Foreign Prince / Flirting and Seduction / Running Away While Pregnant / She Pursues Him] A gloomy, ruthless blind foreign prince at first, then a clingy puppy who begs for her love VS a calculating beauty who wants kisses and cuddles every day Nan Zhiyuan died a horrible death in her previous life. She spent five years married to the man who would become her brother-in-law, and thought they were a loving couple. Litt
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The Wrong Heiress Was Doted On: The Powerful Nobles of the Capital Crush the Marquis’s Estate 错宠假千金，全京城权贵暴虐侯府
[Everyone reborn + feel-good revenge + invincible regret + face-slapping] Shen Qingyang had five powerful brothers. In her previous life, after she was brought back to the marquis’s residence, the fake heiress couldn’t bear the shock and killed herself. Her death left her brothers grieving for half their lives! Later, when her brothers had all risen to the highest ranks and gained enormous power, they felt they had wronged the fake heiress, so they dragged Shen Qingyang down with them, determine
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Joy with You 与君欢
[Palace Intrigue and Political Scheming + Marriage Before Love + Mutual Devotion] A young king and queen join hands to bring peace to the realm, brimming with ambition! A sinister, calculating ruler versus a clever, decisive queen: evenly matched, they win the world together! Jiang He, daughter of an envoy from Qi, was forced to enter the palace as a servant after her mother died and her father disappeared. Then, just before the marriage alliance, the princess of Qi died a tragic death, leaving
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A Rhapsody of Palace Flowers 宫花赋
[A no-nonsense, trope-defying palace-intrigue drama + no love for the emperor + ensemble of women] Everyone has their own ambitions. I have no interest in fighting other women over a man. She was little Qing Luo, a girl who valued her life above all else. Abandoned by her parents as a child, she had wandered through hardship until she entered the Forbidden City, where she met the beautiful, gracious Yue Ren and the clever, perceptive Lü Zhu. At last, her wandering heart found a home. The three s
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Listening to Spring Rain All Night in a Small Tower 小楼一夜听春雨
A critically acclaimed historical romance ensemble that topped the annual charts! A calculating, lovesick beauty versus a dark, scheming top scholar! A historical take on Pride and Prejudice: life in the inner household isn't all scheming and rivalry, but also deep sisterly affection. The clever and capable Second Madam Lou takes the greatest pride in her life in having three beautiful daughters. To marry her three marriageable girls into “good” families, she travels a great distance to the capi
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The Cultivation World’s Sickly Number One 修真界第一病秧子
The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou
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The Whole Family Transmigrates: 18 Ways to Survive in Ancient Times 全家穿越：古代生存十八法
The whole family transmigrates to ancient times after an accident. Whether that counts as good luck or bad luck is anyone’s guess. They’ve barely woken up when they find out the family has no money, no land, and a mountain of debt to repay. Not one of them has a golden finger, either. But the dog that came along with them is rather interesting. Could it be some kind of divine hound? This big family has to put food on the table, keep the household harmonious, and make progress in their studies. W
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You Destroyed My Dantian This Morning, Now I’m Burning Paper at Your Grave 上午毁我丹田，下午在你坟前烧纸
[The physical edition of One Thought, Phoenix Rising is available on all platforms] Feng Xi transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female side character, and the day she enters the book is the day she is doomed to die. To stay alive, she does everything she can to leave the heroine's sect, the Hunyuan Sect, and join the Xuantian Sect instead. Oh! All five of her senior brothers are the heroine's devoted admirers in the book, and each one dies more miserably than the last. Feng
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After I Was Reborn, My Late Husband and Ex-Husband Started Fighting 重生后，亡夫与前夫打起来了
[Rebirth, a scheming male lead, ruthless pursuit, a love triangle, and rekindled love after a breakup] [A foolish beauty in her past life and not much smarter in this one VS a reserved, self-disciplined beauty on a lofty pedestal VS a hedonistic young lord who takes what he wants] In her past life, Gan Caier managed to squander a winning hand through her own sheer incompetence. In the end, she died alone in the snow on New Year’s Eve. She couldn’t blame anyone else, but she still died with regre
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Drunk on Spring Beneath the Begonias: The Concubine Is Desperate to Rise in Rank 海棠春欲醉：外室她疯狂想上位
In her previous life, Bai Zhi was forced to become Master He’s concubine. Reborn after being widowed, she wants nothing to do with an old man, so she sets her sights on Master He’s five sons instead. She has not only a delicate, captivating beauty, but also a clever mind and plenty of tricks up her sleeve. Unfortunately, her plans get off to a bad start when she provokes the one person she absolutely should not: He Er. She dresses to the nines and goes to seek He Da’s guidance in music in the mi
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My Beloved, You Bewitch My Heart 卿卿惑君心
[A bewitching fox-like beauty schemes to make the hero fall deeper at every turn + palace intrigue + transmigrated heroine VS reborn heroine] A Wall Street queen of finance dies in a plane crash and becomes Mu Qingli, the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister of Dongli, who died unjustly. She inherits all of the original owner’s memories and bloody grievances: the humiliation of spending her wedding night alone, the despair of being framed for adultery, and the tragic leap from the Star-Gaz
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When the Bridal Sedan Arrived, She Refused the Marriage, Driving the Feigning-Sick Heir Mad 花轿临门她拒嫁，装病的世子气疯
[Reborn + Revenge on Scumbags + Sweet Romance + Satisfying Payback] Shen Tang only learned on her deathbed that her elder legitimate sister, the empress, was not their parents’ daughter, but the murderer who had killed her entire family. Fortunately, Heaven took pity on her. After dying, she was reborn on the day before her sister was to marry a man as a good-luck bride. In her previous life, her sister feared being widowed and schemed to make Shen Tang take her place. Then, after the marriage b
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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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Your Majesty, I Think Your Palace Maid Is Cursing You Again 皇上，你家宫女好像又在骂你
[The irresistible appeal of what you once rejected + powerful men bowing their heads + a double-standard male lead + raising her before a story of power and statecraft + romantic push and pull + he truly doesn’t love her at first, but gives his all once he does] Su Nanchu is unruly. Shen Jingzhi has always known that. But life in the palace is dull, and he doesn’t mind having a little plaything who can kick and scream. She becomes his daily amusement: reading memorials, practicing calligraphy, a
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The Crown Princess Is Beautiful and Bad, Yet Still Pretends to Be Sweet 太子妃又美又坏，偏偏还要装乖
[Sweet Romance] Song Yao, who was born into this world, got married to Nangong Yi, the notoriously violent crown prince. After their wedding, they acted like a proper couple, treating each other with courtesy and respect. Gradually, Song Yao discovered that the crown prince was nothing like the violent man of the rumors. He was gentle, considerate, and easy to get along with. So she let her true nature out and started doing as she pleased. - At first, when facing the crown prince: Song Yao: gent
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After Transmigrating to a Matriarchal World, She Spoiled Her Hapless Shadow Guard 穿越女尊后，她把倒霉暗卫宠上天
[Matriarchal society + sweet romance + one-on-one + devoted to each other] [Calculating and ruthless princess × obedient, loyal guard] The capital's good-for-nothing Second Princess is beaten in the street by another woman for pursuing a man, then crashes into a stone lion. After recovering from her serious injuries, the Second Princess seems like a completely different person: kind to others, uninterested in competing, and always helping her sisters. It isn't until the day this powerful princes
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The Delicate, Scheming Medicine-Jar Consort Has the Sickly Tyrant Begging for Mercy 药罐贵妃娇又作，病娇暴君乖乖认怂！
Transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder concubine, Xiao Xiruo is destined to die of rage and leave her entire family dead? And she’s sickly, coughing up blood every day? Xiao Xiruo: Keep it together. Don’t panic! With powerful backing, I’ll take the court by storm and rule the imperial harem! Feng Wuyan, the puppet emperor of Great Yan, is a deranged villain who slaughtered everyone in the book until only its title remained. He does the cruelest deeds and strikes with the deadliest hand.
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Storing Charm 储媚色
Li You transmigrated into a book, becoming the delicate, flowerlike heroine of a historical romance about political intrigue and tragic love, a heroine the male lead would torment in body, heart, and soul from beginning to end. But the moment she arrived, Li You discovered that her cousin, the story's wicked second female lead, had been reborn. So she was about to be demoted to a mere cannon-fodder character? Li You: "..." Fine, let me lie down for a while. On her wedding day, her cousin didn't
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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
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A Brilliant Scheme for the Noble Daughter of Qingchen 清辰似锦嫡女谋
As the youngest legitimate daughter of a duke's household, she should have had a peaceful, uneventful life. But after entering the palace one day, she found herself caught in its treacherous intrigues…
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Golden Boudoir, Jade Beauty 金闺玉质
[Elegant Historical Setting] [Household Intrigue] Though born into a high-ranking family, Lu Hanzhang lost her mother at a young age and grew up in the shadow of her scheming stepmother and sisters, facing the world with a cold expression. All she has ever wanted is to protect the dowry her mother left behind and find a trustworthy man to share an ordinary life with. Her cousin is the safest choice, and she knows it. Step by step, she moves toward the path she has set for herself, never expectin
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Night Lotus 夜芙蓉
Like a fragment from a past life, all the splendor had faded away. They met in a breathtaking encounter and lingered amid fragrant breezes and shifting shadows. They forgot the passage of time, forgot to leave, forgot their painful dreams. What came sharply into view was the endless future they would share. Those few short steps were a river neither wanted to cross: she stood on this bank, he on the other. He saw her tears; she saw his smile. In that fleeting moment, this was a lifetime. Ye Furo
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A Joyful Gathering 欢喜聚
The joys and sorrows of a blended family in ancient times. [A fictional setting: family life and affection that grows over time] An older half-brother who shares the same father. A younger half-sister who shares the same mother. An older sister they took in. A stepsister and stepbrother with no blood ties, after their mother remarries. Yang Xiyue is somehow thrust into a family with a full set of siblings. Life is hard, and people are complicated. Let’s see how this big family eventually finds a
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After I Was Reborn, the Movie Emperor's White Moonlight Turned Dark 重生后影帝的白月光黑化了
[Everyone’s Darling + Entertainment Industry] In her previous life, Gu Wangyan was manipulated by a scumbag and lost his life! Before he died, he discovered that he was movie emperor Shen Xiangting’s white moonlight! Reborn in a new life, the white moonlight turned dark! Scumbag ex: “Wangyan, I fell out with my family for you.” Gu Wangyan: “Oh, the weather’s turning cold. The Lu family should go bankrupt.” Possessive older brother: “My little brother wouldn’t hurt a fly. Don’t you bully him.” Th
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Losing Control Around Him 对他失控
[Healing + yandere + sugary romance + no female lead + two male leads + saving a tragic, powerful beauty] [Sweet, timid healer × obsessive, unhinged demon king] From the moment Lu Xinghe dreamed that Shen Yansui, the gloomy, volatile problem student at his school, would meet a tragic and brutal end, bad luck and mishaps plagued him. The only way to turn his luck around was to save Shen Yansui. So the well-behaved Lu Xinghe summoned every ounce of courage he had and began approaching the brooding
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