A Scheming Female Lead Who Climbs the Ranks by Using Men and Seizing Power Through Her Own Means 女主有心计的，踩着男人上位，靠自己手段夺得权势
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- 1 The Evil Woman Hunted by the Capital’s Elite? She’s Gorgeous and Arrogant 被京圈追杀的恶女？她又美又嚣张 [Newly released rating, expected to rise. One woman, many men; all the powerful men bow to love; a low-morality, universally desired heroine] Jiang Ci transmigrates into the beautiful, wanton girl making headlines in Beijing's elite circles. The young son of a top aristocratic family is gravely injured and near death. Every piece of evidence coils around her like poisonous vines, clinging tight to this beautiful “flower of evil.” Overnight, she goes from a wild “queen of the sea” to a “suspect 33Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 2 The Deadly Beauty Trap: A Top-Tier Green Tea Takes Down the Powerful 致命美人计：顶级绿茶杀穿权贵圈 [Selfish, calculating femme fatale with a sweet exterior + a face and figure that are second to none + seduction + schemes + multiple men] Shen Mingyue grew up in a remote mountain village. As a child, she watched her parents and relatives get beaten to a pulp, only to find that there was no one she could turn to for help. This glimpse of society's dark side taught her early on just how cold the rules of the world could be. Whoever holds power gets to decide what is right! To make sure no one co 106.3kReads8.9Score6.6kShelves
- 3 Gold Digger's Guide to Marrying Up 捞女高嫁手册 [A Scheming, Irresistible Heroine ✖️ Powerful Men of Every Kind] Wan Li hated poverty more than anything and loved wealthy men above all else. They say, “Marriage is a woman’s second chance at life.” So she turned her beauty and ambition into bargaining chips, navigating her way among all kinds of men. Clever and calculating, she planned her every move and finally married into a wealthy family. Luxury became part of her daily life, and she had every fine thing she could want. Yet one night, she 114.7kReads9.2Score16.4kShelves
- 4 The Cunning Green Tea Plays the Hunter, and Every Top Tycoon Falls for Her 心机绿茶反狩猎，顶级大佬全沦陷 [One woman, three men + Powerful men bow their heads + Ordinary heroine's rise + Revenge + Rivalry between men] [All the men are virgins, everyone's a schemer, and the heroine isn't a good person either] Everyone thinks Su Yi is infatuated with He Ting. He's ten years older than her, the model husband in elite circles, and her benefactor. So... Someone scolds her for having no shame, then eagerly offers himself to her. Someone tells her to use him as a stepping stone and climb higher without loo 706Reads8.3Score103Shelves
- 5 The Poor, Wicked Girl's Daily Dog-Training Routine 清贫恶女训狗日常 [Poor but wicked heroine + dog-training antics + a battlefield of competing men + everyone’s dream girl + master manipulator + Mary Sue] Good women earn a good reputation. Bad women get everything. How would you define a wicked woman? At first, Su Ying thought it meant being crazy and ambitious, having a heart that would stop at nothing to achieve its goals beneath a polished, glamorous, and false exterior. She kept that side of herself hidden, doing everything she could to play the sweet, helpf 1kReads8.7Score109Shelves
- 6 Quick Transmigration: A Charmer Transmigrates into a Vicious Female Side Character 快穿之万人迷穿成恶毒女配 [Everyone's Favorite + Villainess + Love Rivalry + No Fixed Male Lead] After the villainesses awaken, they all run away! To keep the world at peace, System 008 binds a newbie Host from ancient times and sends her to take over the villainesses' jobs. But when one male lead after another falls in love with this Host, 008 finally realizes it never asked about her true form! Si Ya: My true form is a peach blossom spirit! I'm practically made to attract romance, so it should be fine, right? System: “ 1kReads7.4Score119Shelves
- 7 After Switching Lives with a Tycoon, She Turned the Ultra-Luxury Socialite World Upside Down 和大佬互换后她炸翻了顶奢豪门 [Also known as: The Overbearing CEO and the Celebrity Who Swapped Bodies and Reformed the Entertainment Industry] Third-rate actress Zhong Ruanxing has faced endless controversy over her sexy figure ever since her debut, with scandalous rumors constantly swirling around her. She is suppressed by industry bigwigs and dragged down by rivals, while smear campaigns come one after another. For years, she has been unable to shake her image as a sexy star, and her career has been severely hampered. Son 51.9kReads9.6Score8.5kShelves
- 8 The Wicked Woman Has Trained Countless Men! She Climbs the Social Ladder and Sparks a Rivalry 恶女训狗无数！攀高枝！引雄竞 [Now publishing / The short drama Hong Luan Yin is streaming] [The villainess won't reform + unapologetically self-serving + taming men + a battlefield of men competing for her] Yun Qi is transported into a storybook that deliberately paints her as ugly and wicked. Once a powerful princess who ruled the court and kept countless male lovers, she now finds herself reduced to a disgraced fake heiress of the Marquis's household. The real heiress, meanwhile, is the family's precious jewel, destined t 136.5kReads9.4Score19.2kShelves
- 9 The Scheming Woman Crooks a Finger, and the Experts Go Wild for Her 心机女勾勾手指，大佬们死去活来 [True Villainess + Everyone Falls for Her + Taming the Guys / No Male Lead, Only Supporting Male Characters] Li Jie has always been abandoned. Her parents left her behind and never came back. Her childhood sweetheart vanished without a word when she was at her lowest. An influential tycoon broke both her hands for the sake of his younger sister, then sold her to a pervert... During the time she was held captive, she thought she was going to die, but somehow she survived. Three years later, Li Ji 804Reads9.2Score136Shelves
- 10 A Desire Too Deep to Escape 深欲难渡 [Transmigrate into a book as a black-lotus heroine + everyone is emotionally and physically jaded + adult love, lust, and grudges + fighting to win her over] Shi Shuyi transmigrates into an old-fashioned tragic romance novel as a cannon-fodder female supporting character. After the original male and female leads break up, the original Shi Shuyi steals three months of love meant for someone else, only to end up with her family destroyed. The man she once loved deeply, Fu Shiyan, watches coldly. 44.8kReads9.1Score4.8kShelves
- 11 After Our Marriage Swap, the Chaste Heir Spoils Me Rotten 换亲后，被禁欲世子宠疯了 [Scheming, seductive, ambitious concubine-born daughter x aloof, noble heir with a sharp tongue] Zhao Yan heard that a famous screenwriter who hated her had used her as the model for a reborn, sweet-and-satisfying drama, casting her as the wicked foil to the heroine. Intrigued, she decided to take a look. In the script, the heroine, Zhao Hua, married the male lead in her first life: Wei Heng, the heir to Prince Duan, a man as untouchable as a mountain peak. But the coldhearted male lead, the her 2.2kReads8.6Score322Shelves
- 12 Max-Level Beauty: All of the Capital Is Caught in My Love Triangle 满级美人：全京城都在我修罗场里 [Deliciously indulgent, irresistible heroine + Master of romantic chaos + No fixed male lead + Everyone has a one-sided crush + No secondary couples] The irresistibly charming heroine is here: gentle and harmless on the surface, but truly a master at playing people like puppets. “An insignificant supporting character? No. This time, I’ll make every last one of them submit!” Shen Qingwu is breathtakingly beautiful, but she’s only a short-lived supporting character in a storybook. She refuses to a 989Reads7.7Score121Shelves
- 13 EN The Infinite Reset: A Side Character's Journey to Immortality 女配修仙，但是无限读档 [No romance, an absolutely massive golden finger, carefree cultivation, fighting monsters and leveling up] What happens when a cannon-fodder supporting heroine gains the ability to reload infinitely... Bad spiritual roots from the start? Reload and try again. Can’t win the sect tournament? Reload and try again. A secret realm full of danger? Reload to avoid every danger and collect every rare treasure. Offended a high-ranking cultivator? Even with just a 1% chance of success, keep reloading thro 74.6kReads9.4Score9.9kShelves
- 14 The Green Tea Bitch’s Rise to the Top: What Happened Next 绿茶婊的上位后续 [Reborn + Multiple Male Leads + Male Rivals Competing for Her + Female Lead-Centric] In her previous life, Tang Yanan had a place in the heart of Jiang Ting, the brooding male lead, yet she could never escape the misery of being a disposable side character. The original heroine, Lin Zhinan, cunningly climbed to the top of the pyramid with the help of four wealthy men. But this time, reborn, Tang Yanan would take her fate into her own hands. The refined, aloof CEO, the rebellious officer, the ha 227Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 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 58.5kReads9.3Score7.7kShelves
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The Scheming Beauty's Conquest Notes 心机美人的攻略手札
Jiang Fu swore from a young age that she would climb the social ladder and marry into a powerful family. She was willing to use any means necessary. On the eve of the Jiang family’s legitimate daughter’s wedding, the groom’s side was rocked by a scandal of epic proportions. Jiang Ruyue, who had been pampered all her life, immediately refused to marry him. So the Jiang family secretly brought back Jiang Fu, the concubine-born daughter who had been raised far away. The Jiang family looked down on
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- 17 Reborn, She Becomes the Most Popular Girl at the Elite Academy 重生后，她成了贵族学院万人迷 [Nobility + Reborn + Everyone’s Darling + Romantic Rivalry] In her previous life, she treated her mortal enemies as the family closest to her, only to be rewarded with an ending that left her in unbearable pain. The person she trusted most became the mastermind behind her bullying. Her boyfriend held another woman in his arms as she smiled mockingly and watched coldly while others humiliated her. Gentle Aunt Fu drove her out of the house, accusing her of disgracing the family and saying her very 2.3kReads8.3Score202Shelves
- 18 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 756Reads9.0Score101Shelves
- 19 Quick Transmigration: The Older Woman Everyone Adores Is So Sweet and Delicate 快穿大龄万人迷：姐姐她娇软堪怜 [From universally disliked to universally adored + age gap + winning over all male leads and supporting characters + unapologetic Mary Sue + intense melodrama + all kinds of rivalry scenes + no fixed couple + all male characters are virgins] In life, Jiang Tian was a notorious heartbreaker. After death, she was recruited by the Supreme God and became an unstoppable Host for the heroine group. Who could have known that one careless mistake would land her in the highest-difficulty branch of the 35.4kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
- 20 Reborn, the White Moonlight Became a Black Lotus 重生后白月光成了黑莲花 [A satisfying elite-family romance + a Fan-Favorite System + scheming green tea and fake sweethearts + slow world-hopping + a heroine with many skills] Lu Youzhi lives in a low-dimensional world and is Heaven’s favorite, blessed with all of Heaven’s love. Her figure, her family background, everything about her is the best. But one day, streamers from higher dimensions who specialize in winning people over set their sights on her. To prove that she doesn’t deserve Heaven’s love, they appear in he 222Reads8.7Score100Shelves
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Spoiler System: Complete the Task and Get a Furnace Physique as a Bonus? 败家系统：完成后附赠炉鼎体质？
[Adored by Everyone, Sweet and Soft Girl | Male Rivals Competing | 1vN] Yang Wan transmigrates into a book and becomes bound to a Spendthrift System. With no choice in the matter, she squanders her fortune just to stay alive and protect the people she loves. But she is born with a bewitching beauty that leaves everyone around her spellbound. The refined, noble chancellor longs to share her bed, the wandering physician gives her all his tenderness, the obsessive assassin drags her into his arms,
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- 22 The Black Swan's Rules of Capture 黑天鹅诱捕法则 Also known as: The Black Swan’s Rules of Seduction A top-tier green tea girl, and she will not be redeemed. 1VN along the way, 1V1 ending. Male rivalry | Shura field Eighteen years of misery transformed Wen Ning into a poisonous black swan. She has only one goal: to drag the Wen family straight to hell with her. With no power or influence, Wen Ning has only one way to achieve her goal: hunt down the elite and make them work for her. A truly skilled hunter not only appears as prey, but can even m 24.5kReads8.7Score3.3kShelves
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The Scheming Beauty's Tale of Climbing the Social Ladder 心机美人攀高枝记
(The main story is complete; bonus chapters are being updated.) [Scheming beauty rises to power + Black lotus heroine + Male lead is an aloof paragon + Heroine stops at nothing + The male lead’s desperate pursuit] Su Wansi is an orphan living under the roof of the Duke of Xue’s residence. After losing both her parents, she endures cold stares, ridicule, and scorn, tasting all the bitterness of depending on others. It takes every ounce of her effort just to secure a foothold in the Duke of Xue’s
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The Gray Lotus 灰莲花
[A textbook case of realist business warfare + a deeply romantic, top-tier intellectual romance] The world has gone mad. A top-tier rich, handsome young heir is forced to compete with his wealthy wife for a lover... “If she likes me and I like her too, then we’ll each have to prove ourselves.” The male lead is loaded with resources and comes with every advantage, while the female lead has brains and beauty and rises from humble beginnings. A textbook case of realist business warfare, arranged fa
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The Beautiful White Moonlight Was Possessed 貌美白月光她被夺舍了
[Just rated! Evil heiress with a million admirers + unhinged heroine + men competing for her + romantic rivalry + evil-spirit game] When Jiang Minxi leapt from the roof of Hangang International High School, no one noticed that an evil spirit who had wandered for a thousand years had seized her perfect body. “Congratulations on binding the Vengeance Goddess System,” a mechanical voice rang out in the evil spirit's mind. “Task one: Make those hypocrites pay. Task two: Get close to the chosen one.”
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The Black Lotus Makes a Comeback and Becomes Everyone's Crush With a Beauty System 黑莲花靠变美系统逆袭全网万人迷
[Scheming, dark-hearted harem-favorite heroine ✖️ powerful men from every walk of life] [All the men are virgins and become her dogs | Feel-good story | Men get hurt | A vain, self-serving, slightly twisted bad woman] My name is Yu Jing. I was born a selfish bitch. Hold others to high standards and give myself a pass: that’s my motto. If someone plays with my feelings, I curse them to hell. But if I play with someone else’s feelings, that just means they’re too stupid. The moment the “Fantasy V
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I Transmigrate into a Pretty Widow in the 1970s, and I Play with Men 穿成七零俏寡妇，姐玩的就是男人
[Historical Setting + One Woman, Multiple Men + Multiple Male Love Interests + Female Lead Has No Male Lead + Villainess + Men Competing for Her + Love Triangle Chaos + Satisfying Read] Xiao Wu transmigrated into a period novel as a beautiful widow with a ruined reputation. Her mother-in-law called her a seductress, her brother-in-law wanted to sell her to an old bachelor, and the whole village was waiting to laugh at her. The original owner jumped into the river and died. Xiao Wu wouldn’t. So w
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Glamour and Glory: An Ambitious Climber's Rise 光鲜亮丽：野心家的上位史
[Scheming temptress and irresistible heartthrob × multiple powerful men | villainess from the bottom gets revenge and rises to the top | social-climbing comeback | rivals fighting over her | female growth] Everyone is infatuated with the glamorous surface of high society. No one looks deeper into the rotten past beneath it. Lin Renqiao was born in the mire of the underclass, hiding a bone-deep hatred and sky-high ambition. She sets aside her sincerity and hones her beauty, self-restraint, and cu
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Reborn as a Top-Tier Star Heiress: The Rich Fight Over Me 重生商界顶流千金：豪门疯抢
[Revenge against scumbags + forced possession + reborn heroine + romantic rivals competing] [Sweet-faced, scheming seductress × unhinged heir / abstinent CEO / rugged military king / refined but depraved bureau chief / financial predator] [In her past life, she was abandoned by her own family, betrayed by the one she loved, and bullied and framed, until she lost her reputation and died with bitterness in her heart!] [Reborn in the year 2000, Li Muan returns from the ashes with memories steeped i
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- 30 Fallen Rose: The Dark Moon and Her Counterattack 陷落玫瑰：黑月光与她的反杀局 [Revenge Against Scum] [Forced Possession] [Awakening to Her True Identity] [Rivalry for Her Affections] [One Woman, Four Men] [Sweet on the Outside, Dark and Scheming on the Inside, a Seductive Strategist × Her Possessive Adoptive Brother / Abstinent CEO / Gentle Young Nobleman / Capitalist Predator] ▲ Her true identity awakens, and a bloody revenge begins Abandoned at an orphanage as a child, she was later molded by the Song family into a tool for a marriage alliance. She bides her time, turni 318Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Ultimate Green Tea Gold Digger: The Powerful Fight Over Her 顶美绿茶捞金记，权贵为她争疯了
It's just started, so the score will rise later~ [All male leads are virgins] [Soft-spoken but ruthless top-tier green tea schemer x top-tier power brokers] [Brothers turn against each other + 1vN + loyal attack dogs + men competing in a battlefield of love] [Character growth] The night she turned thirteen, everything in her family changed overnight. Shen Yue fell from heaven into hell, and bullying and debt collectors became part of her daily life. At eighteen, her debts had piled up like a bou
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The Wicked Woman Everyone Loves: I Can Kill with a Breath! 恶女万人迷，靠呼吸杀疯了！
[The main story is complete] [Mature Man + Mature Woman + Reborn for Revenge + Coercive Possession + Villainess Everyone Loves + Self-Interest Above All + No One Has Any Boundaries] In her previous life, Wen Nian was a fool. She loved the wrong man until she became a murderous, mentally ill criminal, and even caused Shen Yubai, who had always waited for her, to die. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the day she was introduced to her husband’s boss. This time, she wouldn’t run a
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