Any Palace Intrigue Novels Where the Heroine Seems to Be Suffering, but Is Actually Setting Things Up to Break the Hero's Heart? 有没有宫斗文表面虐女主身其实女主在铺垫虐男主心
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Your Majesty, Stop the Cruelty. Her Majesty Has Given Up 皇上别虐了，娘娘她死心了
At the edge of a cliff, three thousand strands of black hair danced in the wind, and the red sleeves of her robes fluttered. The young king held out his hand, his voice icy: “Come here!” Was this heaven or hell? Amusement glinted in the woman's eyes as her red veil fluttered. She had once possessed beauty enough to captivate a kingdom, but now her face was covered in hideous scars. She pulled out the hairpin he had placed in her hair and slashed her cheek with it. Filthy blood splattered over he
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I Turned Out to Be the Emperor's Moonlight 我竟是皇帝的白月光
On the day people from the palace came to escort the Zhou family's daughter into the palace as a beauty, the young lady was abducted by a rogue. To save her own life, Jiang Yi took her mistress's place and entered the palace. The palace ladies all said that the current emperor, Fu Ang, had no interest in women and only wanted to treat them like sisters. Jiang Yi also thought she was the most insignificant of the emperor's many younger sisters. Who could have guessed that the words "I've met this
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After Entering the Palace, the Empress Went on a Killing Spree 入宫后，娘娘杀疯了
[Strong hero and heroine + a touch of political intrigue + palace and household drama + green-tea male lead + yandere + chaste male lead] Lou Hua is the regent wielding real power in Mobei, cool and distant yet alluring. To unify the realm, she assumes the name Xun Yan and travels to Chiyan as Mobei's foremost dancer, joining the imperial harem to throw the court into chaos and bewitch the emperor. Jun Si, courtesy name Yan Ci, is Chiyan's young emperor. The moment he sees that captivating dance
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The Princess Consort Wants No Part in Palace Intrigue 王妃她不想宫斗
"My lord, should I have Shen Ning taken care of?" "No need. I can afford to keep a canary." Shen Ning had this to say: she absolutely did not need a royal birdkeeper. After all, the women in royal families never came to a good end in TV dramas. She was gentle, sweet, innocent, and kind, and most importantly, she had ambitions of her own. Shen Ning, a medical prodigy from Country A, transmigrated into the body of the useless second daughter of the Nan Yue Kingdom's Shen family. Nangong Muchen, th
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The Humble-Born Daughter Takes the Capital by Storm: The Empress’s Consort Is Too Arrogant 庶女倾城：皇妃太嚣张
[Scheming heroine + palace intrigue + everyone's darling + satisfying revenge + plot twists + exclusive devotion + power struggles + rich romance + possessive pursuit + 1v3] (A story where affection is shared among all love interests. If that's not your thing, please move along. Thank you.) When Hua Rou was three, her mother was tormented by the main household until she lost her mind. She babbled and laughed to herself, sometimes came to her senses, and at times could not even recognize her own
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The Stingy Man Who Spent a Fortune on Me 那个抠门男人为我一掷千金
She woke up to find herself in ancient times. Her birth mother had low status, her stepmother smiled with a knife behind her back, and now she wanted to marry her off as a second wife to some old man. With such a disastrous start, what was she supposed to do? Lu Mingyu had no intention of becoming an old man’s second wife. She was going to fight for her future. So what if she was a concubine’s daughter? With the right planning, she could still turn the tables and strike back. So she set her sigh
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Clever and Sweet, She Keeps the Chaste and Powerful Begging for Her Night After Night 心机乖媚，撩的禁欲权贵夜夜缠
[An alternate setting: A devoted couple, a clever and charming, flirtatious heroine, and a seemingly innocent but secretly ruthless hero with overwhelming possessiveness. The hero is utterly devoted to the heroine, and his love knows no bounds.] Wen Shuxiao, a concubine-born daughter of the Wen family and the most beautiful woman in Yongzhou, is dumped by her childhood sweetheart and fiancé on the eve of their wedding. He has fallen for a noblewoman from a prestigious family! Being gentle and ob
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Book Transmigration: The Delicate Cannon-Fodder Supporting Character Is Too Pitiful 炮灰女配她娇软堪怜【穿书】
[Transmigrate into a book, delicate little star, adored by everyone, men competing in a battlefield of love] Hua Wu transmigrates! The good news: she’s transmigrated into a historical romance about a Mary Sue heroine adored by everyone. The heroine is born with an irresistible allure, and any man who sleeps with her becomes unable to leave her. She gathers a scheming prince, a bold general, an obsessive imperial tutor, a cold, aloof miracle doctor, a mysterious state preceptor, and many more
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One Tear from the Empress, and She Acts Her Way to the Emperor's Throne 娘娘一滴泪，演到帝王送凤位
[Story complete; easy to get around] Shen Qingfu transmigrated into a rebirth novel. The reborn heroine, Chu Can, had grown up with the crown prince, Ning Xuanli, as his childhood sweetheart. Given a second chance at life, she wanted no love, only power and riches. To become the most special person in the crown prince’s heart, she played hard to get. She had schemes, but no feelings. Shen Qingfu was nothing more than the most insignificant cannon fodder in the rebirth novel. Shen Qingfu gave a s
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The Empress Is So Sweet and Charming, Who Still Cares About a Lost Love? 娘娘又娇又媚，谁还稀罕白月光
[Villainess Transmigrates into a Book + Top-Grade White Lotus + Winning Hearts and Minds + Not Both Leads' First Love] [The heroine looks like a pure, sweet little bunny, but she's actually a scheming temptress who knows how to play her cards.] When Xu Zhuohua is named crown princess, Crown Prince Qi Hecang and his secondary consort Lu Wanning are at the height of their love. As the hero of a male-oriented novel, Qi Hecang only cares about building his career, and his heart belongs solely to Lu
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Yixiu Is Reborn: Tearing Apart the White Lotus Consort Chun Yuan 宜修重生：手撕纯元白莲花
[The rating is low because voting just opened~] “When the heart is kind, the face is beautiful. Surely, even when Pure Yuan grows old, she will still outshine you by a thousand miles.” I should have known better than to poison my elder sister so soon. Then you could have seen for yourself how your moonlight turns rotten, and the white lotus who seduced her sister's husband could have tasted the torment of life deep within the palace! Yixiu thought this as she lay dying. When she opened her ey
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Infamous in My Past Life, I’ll Divorce and Become Everyone’s Beloved in This One 前世臭名昭著，今生和离当白月光
Su Mingzhuang had skin as fair as snow, a face as beautiful as a flower, and a soft, delicate charm that made her stunningly alluring. She had the looks every man coveted, but her parents had spoiled her rotten, turning her into a spoiled, willful, lawless hellion whom everyone avoided. By chance, the young and handsome Duke of Anguo rescued her, and she became dead set on marrying him. She even fabricated a story about being molested, ruining the reputation of the virtuous Duke of Anguo. After
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She Tried to Escape the Palace, but the Cruel Tyrant Kept Her Close 出宫失败，被狠戾暴君囚在掌心宠
After transmigrating into the palace as a maid, Qin Jianjian works diligently, flatters those above her, and deceives those below her. In the end, she becomes the top-ranked maid serving the Empress Dowager. She has undoubtedly reached the pinnacle of her profession. Money she’s openly entitled to, along with money she shouldn’t have, keeps flowing into Qin Jianjian’s pockets. Delighted, she just has to wait until she’s old enough to leave the palace and retire early. Who could have guessed the
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Radiant Beauty 姝色艳艳
[Main story complete] [Revenge + satisfying read + mutual healing] In her previous life, Gu Mingyue was the Princess Consort of Prince Chen, an undefeated female general, and the peerless King of Xiangchu. Unfortunately, though ghosts roamed the night, the human heart was the most terrifying thing of all. Prince Chen betrayed her, shot her with his own hands, and wiped out her entire Gu family. Her closest friend climbed over her corpse to ascend the imperial phoenix throne. The boy she'd rescue
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The Crown Prince's Consort Turns Dark After Being Reborn 世子妃重生后黑化了
My new novel, The Chancellor Who Betrayed Me Is Reborn and Begging Me for a Meal, is now available~ [Fake and real heiresses] Chu Miao was born the eldest legitimate daughter of the Chancellor's residence, but her life was switched at birth with a village woman's daughter. When her family finds her, she becomes a pawn of her parents and the imperial family. She is deceived into marrying Xiao Rongjin, the legitimate son of the Prince of Pingnan. Her father-in-law is a war god who has never known
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Reborn as a Poisonous Consort 重生之毒妃
An Jinxiu, the Taishi’s illegitimate daughter, gave her heart to the wrong man and schemed her way through life. In the end, her lover became emperor, but he abandoned her in the wilderness. Reviled by all as a wicked, poisonous woman, she died in humiliation. Given another chance at life, An Jinxiu casts off her old ways. At first, all she wants is to spend the rest of her life with the man she wronged in her previous life, but she soon discovers that this life is still full of obstacles. After
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The Reborn Matriarch Goes on a Rampage, Filling Her In-Laws' Ancestral Graves 重生主母杀疯了，婆家祖坟埋满了
Also known as The Ex-Husband Is Obsessed with His Widowed Sister-in-Law? Divorce Him and Marry a Powerful Official [Reborn to Take Down Every Backstabbing Wolf] [Love-Chasing Redemption + Never Looking Back] In her previous life, Mu Yunshu poured every ounce of herself into the Lou family. But as she lay dying, she saw her aloof, taciturn husband making solemn vows to her elder sister-in-law in his arms. Their adopted daughter, whom she had cherished for years, was there too, clinging to the old
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A Chaotic Life Back in Ancient Times 穿回古代的鸡飞狗跳生活
[Everyone’s Darling + Adorable Kids + Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy]: Transmigrating into a lovesick woman, Tang Zhuyun wakes up in the middle of a scene where she’s climbing into a man’s bed. She turns around and runs. Forget this bed, she’s not getting in! Who needs a man when her father is the top scholar, her brother is the top scholar, and even her son will be the top scholar? They’ll protect her, so she can do whatever she wants! As a master physician, she’ll focus on her career, save lives, and k
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The Poisonous Consort 一品毒妃
Su Ziyu is a poison-medicine doctoral expert from the twenty-second century, undefeated in the art of poison and unmatched among poison doctors. But fate had other plans. In an instant, she transmigrated thousands of years into the past, to the Eastern Zhou dynasty, becoming Su Ziyu, the cowardly, weak-willed, foolish concubine-born daughter of the prime minister’s household. Imprisoned, with her birth mother dead, her stepmother persecuting her, and her sisters poisoning her, she faces a brutal
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I Went on a Blind Date with My Female Boss 相亲相到女上司
I Went on a Blind Date with My Female Boss
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The Omniscient System Helps Me Turn My Life Around 全知者系统助我逆袭
The Omniscient System Helps Me Turn the Tables
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The Moonlight's Revenge: A Game of Chess That Sends Everyone to the Crematorium 白月光的复仇棋局：全员火葬场
The White Moonlight's Revenge Game: A Bonfire for Everyone
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The Heiress Isn't Kind: Stay Away from the Corrupted Male Lead 千金不善良：黑化男主别惹我
The Heiress Isn't Kind: Stay Away from the Darkened Male Lead
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Tears of Moonlight: Qin Yue's Revenge and Rebirth 月光之泪：秦悦的复仇与重生
Tears of Moonlight: Qin Yue's Revenge and Rebirth
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Seventy-Seven Days Trapped in a Cave with a Tour Guide 我和女导游被困山洞的七十七天
Seventy-Seven Days Trapped in a Cave with a Tour Guide
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From Good-for-Nothing to Immortal 废材逆仙
The Useless One Defies the Immortals
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The Secretive CEO's Trap: Sharing a Home 隐秘总裁的合租陷阱
The Secretive CEO's Trap of a Shared Rental
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My Dark-Side Girlfriend 我的暗黑系女友
My Dark-Type Girlfriend
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The Iceberg Goddess's Personal Bodyguard 冰山女神的贴身战狼
The Ice-Cold Goddess's Personal War Wolf
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Selling Arms in the Apocalypse 我在末日卖军火
I Sell Weapons in the Apocalypse
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The Ice-Cold CEO Falls for a Country Doctor 高冷女总裁爱上乡野神医
The Ice-Cold CEO Falls for a Country Doctor
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I Became the Dragon Emperor After Prison 出狱后我成了龙皇
After Prison, I Became the Dragon Emperor
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The Hypnotist in White 白衣催眠师
The White-Clad Hypnotist
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Restarting My Life: This Time, I'll Protect You at All Costs 重启人生：这一世我必护你周全
Restarting Life: This Time, I Will Protect You at All Costs
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The Heaven-Defying System: From Ordinary to the Pinnacle 逆天系统：从平凡到巅峰
Against-Heaven System: From Ordinary to the Peak
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A Wrong-Room Encounter: A Ton of Gold and a Boeing 747 错房邂逅：一吨黄金与波音747
A Chance Encounter in the Wrong Room: A Ton of Gold and a Boeing 747
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The Boy Who Stopped Time 暂停世界的少年
The Boy Who Paused the World
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I Brought Home a Supermodel from a Blind Date 相亲带回个超模
I Brought Home a Supermodel from a Blind Date
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The Watcher's Cave 守望者之穴
The Watcher's Cave
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A Qing Dynasty Transmigration: The Empress Wants Her Comeback 清穿之继后要翻身
Transmigrated as Nala, Qianlong's empress, Nairou looked at the palace full of moonlight-white beauties, vermilion-mole darlings, and charming confidantes, and finally understood: Instead of fighting over a stand-in until it all ends in disaster, she might as well lie flat. Consort Ling wants His Majesty's favor? This palace will throw in double your stipend! The emperor is choosing consorts? I'll add three beauties to the list tonight! The Empress Dowager thinks she's a good-for-nothing? What a
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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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After Rising to Consort, She Gives Up Trying 侧妃上位后，便摆烂了
[The male lead is not chaste, the female lead is; household and palace intrigue; exclusive devotion] [Gentle, shrewd, modest, calculating prince × frail, calculating, selfish, and vicious daughter of a duke’s household] The male lead is a prince at first and later becomes emperor. Song Xi transmigrated into a book. When she came of age and received an arranged marriage, she finally remembered that this was a sweet romance novel called My Scheming Prince Fell in Love with Me. If she remembered co
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A Low-Ranking Palace Lady from the Start, with Maxed-Out Harem Warfare Skills 开局小秀女，娘娘宫斗技能满点
[No CP, devoted to palace intrigue for a hundred years!] Ning Yuzhen was sixteen the year she entered the palace, and twenty-eight the year she became Empress Dowager. Framing, miscarriage, poisoning, betrayal... After twelve years of ups and downs in the inner palace, the principles she once hoped to uphold had long since vanished. The people who had once stood by her had long since turned to dust. Ning Yuzhen walked the paths she'd taken in the past, leaving behind only a sigh. When she turned
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The Empress Is Coldhearted, Yet Rises Step by Step 娘娘薄情，步步为后
Shen Tongning had been the emperor’s favorite consort for two years, always believing that he loved her. It wasn’t until his first love entered the palace that she finally realized he had never loved her at all. His beloved framed her for using witchcraft to sow chaos in the harem. The emperor gave her no chance to prove her innocence, ruthlessly stripped her of her title, and demoted her to a convict servant in the Yeting Palace. The Shen family was implicated as well. Their home was confiscate
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The Empress Is Sweet and Alluring, Winning Favor and Rising to Power 娘娘娇软妩媚，一路争宠上位
(A pure palace-intrigue story, not a one-on-one romance, and not a mutually faithful pairing. Proceed with caution!) Bai Ruotang is the legitimate daughter of the second branch of the Right Chancellor’s household. At fifteen, just after coming of age, she is sent into the palace to bear a child for her legitimate elder sister and help her secure the emperor’s favor. Unwilling to be reduced to someone else’s pawn, from the moment she steps through the palace gates, she decides she will carve out
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The Side Consort Is Sweet and Gentle, and the Coldhearted Crown Prince Can't Get Enough 侧妃娇软，薄情太子轻点宠
[Transmigrate into a Book + Palace Intrigue + Plot Buff + HE + Both Leads Are Sexually Inexperienced + Male Lead Is Coldhearted and Applies Double Standards] [Content warnings: The heroine is no saint + she forces the male lead to remain sexually inexperienced + the male lead is utterly lovestruck] The second after Yu Li received the Best Newcomer Award, she transmigrated into a palace-intrigue novel. She became Shen Lichu, a disposable supporting female character with nothing but beauty and fam
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I Won’t Be a Noble Consort! I’m Set on Finding a Husband, and Now the Emperor Is Jealous 不做贵妃！一心招婿后皇帝红了眼
[Devoted 1v1 romance + his pursuit of her + childhood sweethearts + pampered by all + noblewoman vs. transmigrator] (Awakening, not reborn, no palace harem, no previous life) Lin Zhuyun was born into a distinguished family of meritorious officials. Raised in comfort, she is radiant and refined, frail yet carefree and composed. She was granted the title of commandery princess at a young age, cherished by the Empress Dowager, and grew up with the emperor like a childhood sweetheart. Later, the emp
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Mad Empress: I’ll Be the Harem’s Number One White Lotus 疯批皇后，争做后宫第一白莲花
[Transmigration into a fictional setting + highly intelligent heroine in palace intrigue + face-slapping + a volatile, multifaceted personality + not a clean romance] Lin Junxue transmigrated to the Xie Dynasty, an era that had never existed in history, and ended up as an unloved empress who had no idea how she died. She’d thought she was a powerless, unloved empress, but it turned out the original owner’s father was a first-rank military marquis, a loyal servant of the court for three generatio
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The Noble Consort Is Cool and Aloof, and the Emperor Yearns for Her Night After Night 贵妃清冷，圣上夜夜相思
Shen Qinghe was in the bloom of youth when she entered the palace, where she weathered its intrigues for more than a decade. She had hoped to leave with a reward one day, or perhaps spend her whole life peacefully as a palace official. But then an order came down, and one day she unexpectedly became an imperial consort. She watched these women fight day after day, never expecting to become entangled in their schemes herself. Shen Qinghe could only sigh. He was the emperor, and she was a palac
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A Noble Consort in the Deep Palace 深宫有贵妃
When they were young and love stirred in his heart, he took her in. Once he held power, he had no choice but to hide her away. In the lonely inner palace, she waited quietly, day after day and year after year. For power and status, he feared nothing. He overcame every obstacle and held her close. Behind layer upon layer of palace gates and red walls, a dream within a dream awakened the lovers from their reverie.
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