Any Palace-Intrigue Novels With No Male Lead? The Female Lead Stands on Her Own and Is Smart 有没有宫斗文，不要有男主，女主独美，要智商在线
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- 51 I Entered the Palace to Help My Sister Keep the Emperor’s Favor, but Became His Cherished Favorite 入宫替嫡姐固宠，却成皇上掌心宠 In her previous life, she entered the palace and devoted herself to helping her legitimate elder sister keep the emperor’s favor. In the end, she died without a body to bury, abandoned by her family. Returning to the year of the imperial selection, Luo Shuran calculates her every move. Her breathtaking beauty is her only weapon. She sheds her youthful timidity and blossoms into a woman of captivating charm. One fleeting glimpse, like a fairy fallen from the heavens, catches the emperor’s eye. 6.1kReads9.3Score87814d adds
- 52 Life Is a Play, and the Empress Is All About Her Acting Skills 人生如戏，娘娘她纯拼演技 [Palace intrigue + witty banter + sweet, delicate beauty + calculated mind games] The leads are not each other’s only partners. If that bothers you, don’t read. Be prepared for suspicion in the early chapters, followed by affection later. The pacing is slow, so proceed with caution if you prefer fast-paced wish-fulfillment stories. As a double award-winning actress and a seasoned star of palace intrigue dramas, how could Shi Yan possibly lose her nerve after transmigrating into the imperial hare 4.9kReads9.4Score54914d adds
- 53 The White Moonlight Noble Consort’s Daily Life in the Harem 白月光贵妃的后宫日常 (Cover used with permission) With an illustrious family background, breathtaking beauty, and the distinction of being the emperor’s moonlight, Jiang Hui should have found life as a Noble Consort effortlessly easy. Unfortunately, the sisters in all but name in the Eastern Palace, wave after wave of beautiful candidates from the provinces, and the supposed substitutes who resemble her in looks and bearing all tell her the same thing: no one can walk unscathed through the imperial harem. [Alternate 25.1kReads9.3Score2k14d adds
- 54 Wise Men Avoid Love, and the Noble Consort Wants No Responsibility 智者不入爱河，贵妃不想负责 Being a beggar would be better than being in the harem. Shen Qing is despairing over her current identity. The female lead won't appear for another two years, and Shen Qing is the lowest-ranking consort in the male lead's harem. Her father is useless, and she has neither money nor power. It seems her only option is to wait for the emperor's favor. To make matters worse, she has a face that attracts trouble. If she fights for influence, she has no leverage; if she doesn't, she'll just get bullied 47.7kReads9.5Score6.1k14d adds
- 55 The Empress Is a Max-Level Palace Intriguer, Crushing Everyone 皇后满级宫斗，嘎嘎乱杀 [Palace intrigue + infidelity + fictional setting + a resourceful, money-loving, beauty-loving, life-loving empress ✖️ emperor] In her previous life, Hua Shu was a lowly palace maid. She schemed her way to the top of the political ladder, only to be condemned by everyone and branded a wicked woman who brought ruin to the nation. When she opens her eyes again, she finds herself in the unfamiliar state of Chu, as an unloved empress who’s also being made a scapegoat. As if she’d put up with that! S 13.8kReads9.4Score1.8k14d adds
- 56 The Mistress's Daily Life 主母日常 [An Aristocratic Lady Tears Apart a Transmigrator + Reborn + An Idyllic, Leisurely Life as the Mistress of an Ancient Estate] Lu Lingjun and her legitimate younger sister, Lu Hanyi, were both reborn. In their previous lives, Lu Lingjun married the second son of a sixth-rank civil official, while her younger sister married the heir to a marquis’s estate. Everyone said her sister had made the better match. But who could have guessed that Lu Lingjun’s husband would become the prime minister and sec 23.3kReads9.0Score3.2k14d adds
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Back in the 1980s, Starting My Career Anew 回归八零再就业
While everyone else who transmigrates gets to live another life, Qi Xinlan loses twenty years of hers! One moment she's a thriving, ambitious administrative director at a multinational corporation; the next, she's a fifty-two-year-old woman. This is the bittersweet story of how the white-collar elite Cindy Qi became Auntie Qi to her neighbors. Her most promising son is gone, her daughter-in-law has run off, and a whole bunch of little children are left behind! See how a modern HR and administrat
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Pick a Phoenix Man for a Husband 挑个凤凰男做老公
My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Pampered Life of a Spoiled Commandery Princess 纨绔郡主得宠日常
Signed for publication. The print edition is expected to be available by the end of the year. No! This! Is! Not! A! Romance! No CP! No rebirth, no transmigration, a thoroughly evil heroine, a power-struggle story A truly wicked heroine, vying for power over the realm, genuinely unhinged, ruthless, and rotten to the core Questions that come up while reading can only be answered by reading on. The willful, overbearing young princess of the Prince of Zhenbei’s household takes a fancy to Pei Jinnian
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The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了
[Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of
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- 61 The Sound of Spring 闻春声 [Taciturn, stammering country hunk VS vivacious, fiery widow. Farming romance, one-on-one, both leads’ first relationship] [She makes the first move, and the unyielding tree finally blossoms. A period farming romance] At the matchmaker's urging, young Yao Chunniang took her dowry and married into the Zhang family in Lishui Village. Who could have guessed that on their wedding night, her sickly husband would close his eyes and die? Before Yao Chunniang could even process what had happened, she ha 28.9kReads9.6Score3.4k14d adds
- 62 Hand Him the Reins 授他以柄 With the city about to fall and the kingdom on the brink of ruin, Pei Qing wrote a letter asking that man for help. For seven whole days, there was no reply. But just when all hope seemed lost, he arrived. His peerlessly handsome face was full of disdain and contempt. Xiao Yuan walked into the imperial bedchamber with blood dripping from his blade and lazily called out, “Elder Brother.” Having earned merit by rushing to the emperor’s defense, he naturally expected a reward. “I have plenty of gol 24.5kReads9.5Score2.8k14d adds
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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
[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
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When the Female Sword Cultivator Starts Quick Transmigration 当女剑修开始快穿
[Quick transmigration + face-slapping + satisfying read] The book transmigrator who wants to have several lovers at once, the scheming cousin who wants to take her older cousin's place, the evil woman in the entertainment industry, the rich family's live-in son-in-law who builds his success on his wife's sacrifice, the top scholar who abandons his first wife, and the great general who loves only his concubine are all trash in the eyes of the female sword cultivator Qi Sha. So what if you're rebo
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- 65 Quick Transmigration: The Host Is the Big Boss of the Big Bosses 快穿：宿主她是大佬界的扛把子 [No romance] [Strong female lead] [Quick Transmigration] System: Dear Host, could you please try to focus just a little while doing your missions? Ming Li glanced at the System. “I’ll consider it.” System: ... The System cried itself unconscious in the space. Weren’t Hosts supposed to get along lovingly with their Systems? Weren’t they all supposed to complete their missions with enthusiasm? Watching its Host dominate every plane, the System felt like the world had no love left in it. Then, one 10.1kReads9.0Score81914d adds
- 66 Quick Transmigration: The Villainess Is Stunningly Handsome 快穿之反派女神帅翻天 [Face-slapping power fantasy + Ultra-Awesome Heroine] This book is also known as The Villainess Is So Gorgeous She Steals the Show and The Big Shot Shocks the World Every Day. After entering a quick transmigration world with the role of a wicked supporting actress, Yan Cha fought her way through each challenge and competed with the villains to cause all kinds of trouble. The heroine gets framed? That was me! The hero gets poisoned? That was me! The hero and heroine are hunted down? That was me, 501Reads9.1Score10314d adds
- 67 Quick Transmigration System: The Villainous Boss Is No Push-over 快穿系统：反派大佬不好惹 Ling Qingxuan, an elder of a top cultivation sect, died. Her death made no sense, and she was accidentally bound to a black-skinned pig claiming to be a System. “Dear Host, System ZZ is at your service. Complete your missions and you can come back to life!” Ling Qingxuan: “No.” She’d lived for over a thousand years and was sick of it. Couldn’t they just obliterate her completely? “Sure thing, Host. Let’s get started on your mission~” After a thousand years of severing worldly attachments, she wa 3.7kReads8.8Score49014d adds
- 68 Quick Transmigration: The Demon King Wrecks the Plot 快穿之大魔王崩坏剧情 (No romance, brainless wish-fulfillment.) The heroine is an overbearing, chuuni, unhinged supervillain. She isn't human! She has no human morality and is rotten to the core. Anyone seeking justice or a saintly heroine should stay away. She takes the scumbag's path and leaves scumbags nowhere to go. If she can solve something with violence, she won't waste a word. She's a master of every kind of scheming green tea and black lotus trick: if you can imagine it, she can do it. A mama's boy ends up w 29.6kReads9.5Score3k14d adds
- 69 Quick Transmigration: The Max-Level Expert Goes on Another Killing Spree 快穿之满级大佬又杀疯了 [No romance] [Punishing scumbags] [Unhinged heroine] Have you ever seen a destined cannon-fodder character kill the male and female leads from the start? Have you ever seen a medical PhD destroy several zombie cities with a flick of her fingers? Have you ever seen a three-and-a-half-year-old toddler dominate the martial world and hold power at court? When she heard these stories, Ming Yin only smiled faintly: “That's right, it's me. But the ones I want to destroy aren't these insignificant ants. 990Reads9.0Score10114d adds
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Beating the Matriarch, Crushing the Heir: The Wicked Maid Rises to the Top 打主母，踩世子，恶女丫鬟上青云
Green tea schemers | White lotus types | Men competing for her | A battlefield of romantic rivals | Everyone's dream girl | Taming men From the start, Lin Wu was a maid whose job was to carry water, and she was miserable. The heir's wife was spoiled rotten by her husband, acting as she pleased. She was also jealous, vicious, and suspicious. Any woman in her household could end up beaten to death by her. Lin Wu struggled for her life every day. How could she turn things around? Simple... Flirt s
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Doting on My Wife 宠妻
An imperial decree grants the third daughter of the Minister’s residence in marriage to Prince Duan as his principal consort. One might think that for a minister’s daughter to become Prince Duan’s principal consort would be an extraordinary honor, but both the Minister’s household and the entire capital feel nothing but sympathy for this unheard-of third daughter. The reason is simple: rumor has it that Prince Duan is vicious and brutal, and his name alone can stop a child from crying at night.
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- 72 The First Lady of the Cabinet 内阁第一夫人 In her previous life, she married into the imperial family in a high-status match, only to meet a tragic end. Her family was destroyed, and she lost everyone. In this life, all she wants is revenge, yet she becomes the wife of a Grand Secretary, the spouse of a powerful chancellor... 1.3kReads8.7Score13614d adds
- 73 My Archenemy Asked the Emperor to Grant Us a Marriage, Then Spoiled Me Endlessly 死对头请旨赐婚，婚后竟娇宠无度 She was a young lady raised beyond the frontier. A series of misunderstandings made her offend the Sixth Prince, the most doted-on of them all. No matter how gentle and refined she tried to become, she could never escape his sarcastic jibes. Later, the two were granted a marriage. Each wanted to call off the engagement for the other’s sake, never realizing that this was exactly the marriage they both wanted. She blinked playfully. “So, are you ready, Young Master Chu?” “Ready for what?” “Ready 210Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 74 Marrying My Jerk Ex's Archenemy 嫁给渣男死对头 In her previous life, Shen Luan was spineless. She begged her grandmother and older brother to help her husband, a poor scholar, and pave his way to success. Little did she know that even after being promoted seven ranks in three years, he still wasn’t satisfied. For power, he drugged her and forced her to sleep with another man. Then, when she was pregnant and overcome with fear and despair, he made her drink a bowl of poison, killing both her and her unborn child. When she opened her eyes agai 4kReads8.8Score1.2k14d adds
- 75 Reborn as the General's Most Cherished One 重生后成了将军大人的心尖独宠 [A heroine who only wants revenge vs. a cold, devoted hero] Nangong Chenyue was deceived and manipulated, turning the Nangong and Wei families into pawns in the struggle for the throne. In the end, both families were destroyed, and she died a tragic death. Given a second life, Nangong Chenyue resolves to change everything. Find allies, take down the schemers, save her loved ones, kill the scoundrel, and make them pay for every drop of blood they spilled! “I only want revenge. I have no intere 12Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 76 The Yandere Regent's Darling Wife 病娇摄政王的小娇妻 Also titled: Your Highness Is Chasing His Wife Every Day. [Both pure + love at first sight + sweet romance] The first time she met the regent, she had no idea he’d already fallen for her at first sight. After that, he spent every day thinking about how to see her again, showing off like a peacock in full display in the hope of winning Jiang Jinxi’s favor and marrying her as soon as possible. But there was one obstacle: his brother-in-law, who kept getting in the way of his attempts to show off a 13Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 77 His Beloved Frowns, and the Heir Apparent Rushes to Comfort Her 心尖宠她一皱眉，世子夫君追着哄 [One-on-One Romance, Both Pure, Sweet Romance, Childhood Sweethearts] Print edition of Jin Shi Jin Yu signed, and the comic adaptation is now online. Yuan Rongjin was the daughter of a general, but when she was young, her stepmother framed her and sent her away from the capital! Everyone thought she would suffer terribly out in the world and live a miserable life. But no one expected that during the ten years she spent away from the capital, Yuan Rongjin never looked the least bit down and out. 29.4kReads9.1Score2.2k14d adds
- 78 The Scheming Prince: The Fierce Girl Plans to Turn the Tables 腹黑王爷：彪悍丫头要翻天 Ye Zhenzhen became Prince Jing Qi You's personal maid, and everyone said her lowly birth meant the prince would tire of her sooner or later. A young servant: "Don't worry, Zhenzhen. Once the prince gets tired of you, he'll give you to me as my wife!" A guard: "Zhenzhen, when the prince no longer wants you, I want to take care of you for the rest of your life!" Zhenzhen rolled her eyes. She had plenty of money. When the prince got tired of her, she would buy her freedom, open a shop, and become a 4.4kReads9.1Score53814d adds
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Hmph, Raising Dogs Beats Harem Scheming 呵，宫斗不如养狗
After spending decades bedridden and paralyzed, Ning An suddenly discovers she’s transmigrated! And not just anywhere: she’s landed in an ancient palace, where she has to raise a dog! Fine, a dog is a dog. But why does this dog look at her so strangely? “Ergui, sit!” “Ergui, come on, shake hands!” “Ergui...” Yong Prince Yan Jincheng has somehow become Ning An’s beloved dog, Ergui. A thousand muddy horses stampede through his mind as he realizes he’s growing less and less able to tolerate this wo
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Green Shoots on the Branch 绿上枝头
[Signed for print] [Brave, steadfast transmigrated heroine VS cool, clearheaded young noble] [Transmigration + rebirth + prominent family + household intrigue + feel-good + career building + strong heroine + light comedy] Jiang Lübao, daughter of a censor, was unexpectedly kidnapped and had her reputation ruined. The marriage that had already been arranged for her was called off, too. For a young woman from a prominent family, this was a devastating blow. But she burst out laughing. No one knew
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- 81 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 24.3kReads9.5Score3.9k14d adds
