The Pinnacle of Political Intrigue 权谋天花板

1. 1 驸 My Consort Took a Concubine, So I Cast Him Off; He Rebelled, So I Became Emperor 驸马纳妾我休弃，驸马造反我称帝 Paper Tiger纸老虎Ancient Romance541k WordsCompleted [Signed for publication] [A noblewoman and a transmigrated woman join forces to contend for the throne. Strong female lead, ensemble cast, political intrigue, no romance] Yuan Xuan was born to be a pawn. For the sake of the realm, she lived as a man and served as crown prince for over a decade. When her younger brother was born, Yuan Xuan returned to living as a woman and became a discarded pawn. Abandoned by everyone, she had no one left who didn’t want her dead. Less than a year into her marri 16.1kReads9.5Score2.9kShelves

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   Yuan Yansheng - Continuing the Prosperity I think if there was such a person around me, I would unconsciously support her, as if all the beautiful words in the world could not describe her in the slightest. None of the women in it can be described in one-sided black and white terms. If one is listed individually, she can be a great heroine. Whether it is Queen Mother Anyao or Rao An, they all have their own goals. You can say she was bad at a certain period, but you can't say she is stupid. Teacher A Zhi has written out the shining points of each person. Women are soft but tough, smart and ambitious. Ambition has never been a term for men; power should belong to careerists. Their eyes are not admiration, but recognition of themselves. The "mother" in the novel does not look at the people in the book with a condescending attitude, but uses her own knowledge to make the "people" live a better life. This is not one person's heroine, but every hard-working woman's own heroine. "Women can be so strong that they can reinvent themselves after countless collapses."

2. 2 瘸 A Cripple? No, No. You'll All Kneel and Call Me Your Lordship 瘸子？不不不你们都得跪下喊大人 Mo Bai1莫白1Historical1.4M WordsCompleted [Original title: Ambush] Beneath the awe-inspiring might of Heaven, all living beings are mere ants. And yet he dares, with the strength of an insect, to turn the world upside down. For family, for friends, for the burning hatred in his heart, for the nightmares that haunt him year after year, for justice, and for fairness. This story is set in an imaginary world and has no connection to actual history. Everything in it is fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. 11.5kReads8.3Score809Shelves

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   You can check it out if you are in the wilderness of books. It is purely a plot and there are no cheats. The plot needs to be calmed down and pondered.

3. 3 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 24.8kReads9.5Score4.1kShelves

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   It's so beautiful. Sometimes I hate why the heroine's friend has to die. That will only make the heroine more sad, but people will experience separation in their lives. I also looked away, maybe many things will not go as I wish, but I still have to live a good life. Only by going through hardships can you better improve yourself. I also hope that friends who read this book will go well and be safe!

4. 4 昏 The Tyrant Doesn't Want You? Go to His Imperial Uncle, and Now You Cry? 昏君不爱，勾皇小叔入怀，你哭啥 Heart-Stealing Tomato偷心的西红柿Ancient Romance538k WordsCompleted Empress Dowager Zhou Mingwan was brutally murdered by Noble Consort Zhao in the cold palace. Her son's legs were crippled, and he was imprisoned in a cage and devoured by vicious dogs. Her daughter made her kneel and apologize to Noble Consort Zhao, telling her to hurry up and die. The Emperor set a trap that buried the 300,000-strong Zhou army at Guishan. Her parents and elder brother were all hung from the city walls to announce that the wicked empress had fallen. Only as she lay dying did Zho 1.3kReads8.6Score122Shelves
5. 5 恶 The Villainess Asks Every Day: Is the Dog Emperor Dead Yet? 恶女每日一问：狗皇帝今天死了没 Green Mountain Has Its Say青山有辞Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted For eight years in the palace, Xiangjun fought to get ahead and tried to please everyone, yet the palace’s noble masters still ground her down, used her, humiliated her, and cast her aside... Those nobles basked in all the wealth of the realm atop heaps of corpses and bones, yet mocked her for trying her hardest and not knowing her place. In the end, the child Xiangjun risked her life to bear called her enemy “Mother,” while Xiangjun was cut open alive so the baby could be taken from her. She di 99.6kReads9.6Score15.1kShelves

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   The writing is good and the heroine is very enterprising.

6. 6 主 My Lord, Are You a Woman? 主公，你是女子？ Nan Wanxu南婉徐Ancient Romance4.1M WordsCompleted [Publication rights signed] [Strong heroine + political intrigue + turbulent times + power struggles + ensemble cast] She’s fleeing from the start, a female warlord in a chaotic age. Lin Zhihuang, originally named Lin Zhihuan, transmigrates as a county magistrate’s daughter, only to find tens of thousands of refugees attacking the city from the start! While others transmigrate into palace or household intrigue, she transmigrates straight into a chaotic age and a desperate flight from famine. The 68kReads9.4Score9.8kShelves

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   It's all a Machiavellian strategy, with different starting points. Let's see how the heroine takes over the world

7. 7 穿 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 Camellias and Wine茶花与酒Ancient Romance507k WordsCompleted (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 21.2kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
8. 8 穿 Transmigrated as a Treacherous Minister's Legitimate Daughter, She Plays the Part to Perfection 穿成奸臣嫡女，她本色出演 Garlic Bamboo Shoots蒜香竹笋Ancient Romance565k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + Career-focused early on + Sweet romance + One-on-one romance + Both leads are devoted to each other] [Two-faced, ruthless minister's daughter × Wild, formidable iron-faced general] The ruler of the business world transmigrates into a book overnight, becoming the daughter of the treacherous chancellor. She throws her weight around and commits every kind of evil, with the label “vicious supporting female character” practically branded onto her. She's madly pursuing the 120.1kReads9.6Score15kShelves
9. 9 她 She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反 Warfires Stain All烽火尽染Ancient Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and 184.2kReads9.5Score22.8kShelves
10. 10 吾 Which of Us Is More of a Yandere, Me or the Male Lead? 吾与男主孰病娇 How Many Chapters Today, Baobao爆爆今天几更Ancient Romance276k WordsCompleted [Revenge + regret and redemption. Everyone gets hurt except Fuguang] Fuguang is a Void task-taker who specializes in taking on the resentment of people who died unjustly despite being blessed with great fortune. Unlike other task-takers, she uses the original person’s identity, wisdom, and temperament to live their life again and give them the ending they deserved. At the request of the original Lin Yusan, she plays two roles at once. Without her disguise, she is a gentle, pure-hearted young wo 1.5kReads9.4Score191Shelves

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    Please recommend according to this standard!!! It's so cool to watch!

11. 11 陛 The Emperor Is Actually a Woman in Disguise 陛下居然是女扮男装 Empty Fishbowl空鱼瓶Ancient Romance276k WordsCompleted [Empress + court intrigue + plot-focused + no System + no transmigration or rebirth + fictional setting] Xiao Yuchu ascended the throne disguised as a man, then set herself a modest little goal and announced to the world: “I am a woman!” To that end, she laid her plans carefully and acted only when the time was right, suppressing anyone who posed a threat and promoting those who could help her. … Aristocratic clans: We are clans with a century of history, and we monopolize the court. Xiao Y 142Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 12 长 After the Princess Royal Was Reborn, Even the Grand Secretary Couldn't Sit Still 长公主重生后，首辅大人坐不住了 Dong Chichi董迟迟Ancient Romance476k WordsCompleted [Rebirth + Political Intrigue + Powerful Hero and Heroine + Plenty of Foreshadowing + Serious Ensemble Cast] [Charming, Alluring, Sweet-Natured Yet Cunning Eldest Princess + Autocratic, Possessive Chief Grand Secretary] [Important: This is NOT a wish-fulfillment novel!!!] As a princess, Zhao Huiluan lived in luxury and honor, yet died in the prime of her life. Reborn, she finally realized that all the countless honors and favors she had once been proud of were nothing but illusions. Power is saf 10.4kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
13. 13 权 Power Speaks in Silence 权上无声 Ethereal Fairy霓裳妖妖Ancient Romance748k WordsCompleted [Unusual premise + assassin’s rise + strong heroine + political intrigue + cold and heartless + mildly yandere + cool-headed lunatic + male lead rises from the nth place] * Su Mian was just a palace maid serving a princess. On the day the Southern Yan Kingdom fell, she watched everyone die before her without a flicker of emotion. The princess gave her an even more perilous mission. Until it was done, she had to stay alive. But in a world thrown into chaos, she was sold as a slave and forced to e 29.6kReads9.5Score5.3kShelves
14. 14 我 My Fierce Dog, My Horse: I Do Whatever I Want 我的恶犬我的马，我想咋耍就咋耍 Jiu Chuang九创Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Strong female lead, powerful heroine, reborn female general, woman disguised as a man, duty to family and country, serious alternate-history drama, ensemble cast in chaotic times. If you mind a weak romance, don't read.] She died in the very year she was ennobled and made a general, crowned with glory. It turned out that even someone with no lingering resentment could be reborn after reaching the top. In her previous life, because of something her mother said, she took on the burden of her fami 15.7kReads9.5Score2.4kShelves
15. 15 穿 After Entering a Matriarchal World, I Took the Man of My Dreams by Force 穿进女尊世界后我强娶了白月光 Paper Tiger纸老虎Ancient Romance532k WordsCompleted [Early work] After getting drunk one night, Ling Zhao transmigrates into a world where women hold power. She becomes a spoiled, useless imperial princess who is doted on by everyone, and opens her eyes in the middle of a husband-selection ceremony. The person who transmigrated alongside her is Xu Yi, the man she has secretly loved for ten years. Ling Zhao has a selfish motive. She points at him, and Xu Yi is chosen to be the future primary husband of the Seventh Princess. After they reunite, she 7.2kReads9.3Score873Shelves
16. 16 月 Dreams Beneath the Moon in Huazhou 月落梦华州 Wu Tinglan梧听澜Ancient Romance374k WordsOngoing Don’t worry about the rating. [Desert Romance + Powerful Leads Who Save Each Other + Ensemble Political Intrigue + Hilarious Love Triangle] After a sudden raid by bandits, Gong Langyue, a princess of the Xiao Kingdom, is taken captive in the desert. Everyone assumes this delicate young woman from the Southern Dynasty won’t survive the winter. But she not only survives, she thrives, and even turns a group of women stranded on the grasslands into her own team. She may not be skilled in combat, 101Reads8.0Score—Shelves

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    A soul-stirring work with prairie aesthetics: sand and silk dance together, iron and tenderness blend in the game.

17. 17 谁 Can You Believe It? The Empress Wrote a Hundred Palace Rules 谁懂啊，娘娘写了一百条宫规 Strawberry Xi草莓汐Ancient Romance602k WordsCompleted [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 71.9kReads9.6Score10.5kShelves

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    This book covers the ceiling [licking the screen]

18. 18 对 Sorry, She Wants to Be the Heavenly Emperor Too Much 对不起，她太想做天帝了 Armor and Fish铠甲和鱼Ancient Romance1.8M WordsOngoing [No rivalry between women + punishing scumbags + satisfying revenge + unconventional heroine undergoing tribulations + ensemble cast + strong female lead] Content warning: The heroine is not a qualified heir to the Celestial Court from the start. She faces trials and setbacks, yet steadily strives for the highest position. This is not a mindless power fantasy. Also, she is not the kind of character who gives her whole heart to one person. She may have lovers, but none will ever have her complete 140Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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    Others cultivate immortals and fight monsters, but she cultivates immortals and raises dragon masters + engages in intrigues + awakens the divided soul, and her business ability is MAX!

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