Historical Romance: A Strong Female Lead Who Farms and Hunts Early On, Then Gets into War and Political Scheming 古言，大女主前期种田打猎，后期战争权谋，朝堂江
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I Married the Sickly Chief Minister with a Farming System, and He Flirts with Me Every Day 带种田系统嫁病娇首辅，日日被撩
[Farming + putting scumbags in their place + strong heroine + sweet romance + devoted couple] Lu Zhaozhao, head of a family of merchants, accidentally gets bound to a farming System that brings her into a lucky-charm farming novel called The Imperial Consort of the Peasant Household. There, she becomes a cannon-fodder supporting female character who dies as soon as she appears. When she opens her eyes, she has to choose between two newlywed husbands. She faces a greedy, vicious mother-in-law, th
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I Want You! 本王要你！
[Two Strong Leads + Farming + Political Schemes + Cute Pets + Romance] Lin Xiao, an older unmarried woman, transmigrates to ancient times and gets to realize her dream of retiring to a life of farming early, with a childhood sweetheart fiancé thrown in as a bonus! Since she has a fiancé, she can’t just love whoever she wants. She misses her chance with the Divine Doctor Shangguan, who fell for her at first sight, and even sends the man she loves into someone else’s bed with her own hands! From
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A Counterattack from the Start! The Transmigrator Makes a Name for Herself in the Capital 开局反杀！穿越大佬名动京城
[Farming + Spatial Realm + Powerful Transmigrator + Strong Female Lead + Plenty of Trump Cards + An Overpowered Golden Finger] Qin Ruo, a modern-day bounty hunter who was about to retire, suddenly transmigrated one day. She became a dirt-poor peasant girl with a meek personality, the kind everyone felt free to bully. Her family included elders so biased they might as well have been blind, a younger brother who only wanted to use her as a stepping stone to climb higher, and a whole crowd of aw
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Forced to Give Up the Throne, She Surrenders the Imperial Seal and Leaves the Court in Tears 被逼让位，她献出玉玺后群臣大哭
“Pay attention: this is a story with a strong female lead, no male lead, and no romance.” After transmigrating, she became the most exalted woman in Yun Zhao. She thought she could live a carefree life of wealth and luxury, but danger closed in from every side, with pitfalls everywhere. It was not just her reputation at stake, but her life. The emperor dreams of ruling in his own right? Here, take the imperial seal. Go play by yourself, kid! The consorts are fighting for power in the palace? Tos
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The Princess Wears the Imperial Robe! The Court and All the Realm Bow Down 公主黄袍上身！满朝文武九州全跪
(The heroine focuses on her career, with no romantic pairing. She becomes somewhat cold-hearted and ruthless later on.) Born into the world as a princess, Yu Hui thinks that at last, an incredible fortune has fallen into her lap. She has a palace to live in, money to spend, and status to protect her, so she can enjoy a peaceful, happy life. But peace is out of the question. Calamities keep dropping out of the sky, and they’re heavy ones. Happiness? Not really. Someone is always ending up dead, s
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A Hunter’s Daughter in the Qing Dynasty Just Wants a Simple Life 清穿之猎户女就想踏实过日子
Qing Dynasty transmigration + born into the past + farming + raising a child + palace intrigue (though there’s no palace intrigue, and she isn’t favored exclusively at first) Important: The plot moves slowly. If you prefer a fast pace and an exclusively doting relationship, feel free to choose another book! After failing the civil service exams four times in a row, Jiang Yao finishes her fifth exam and decides to pray for good luck at Yonghe Temple, a place said to grant wishes. Instead, she’s r
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The Laid-Back Village Girl Strikes It Rich While Lounging Around 咸鱼小村姑，躺着躺着人财双收了
[Two new animated drama versions are out, come check them out] Ancient setting + contrast between two women + adorable child + family life + marriage before love + sweet romance + devoted one-on-one couple {A sleepy, clingy little wife who seems like a lucky charm but is actually a clear-headed slacker vs. a cold, icy prince who is secretly lovestruck and flirtatious} After dying from overwork as a modern office worker, she becomes the daughter of an ancient peddler. Having suffered enough in h
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You Take the Imperial Exams, I Farm: A Paper-Thin Couple Braving the Famine 你科举我种田，塑料夫妻闯荒年
[Farming + food + pocket dimension + stockpiling grain + fleeing famine + business + sweet romance + everyday life] After Jiang Qingyue’s soul is mistakenly taken, she receives the ultimate transmigration starter pack. She thought she’d get to live a cheat-powered life, railing against heaven, earth, and everything in between. Instead, she transmigrates into the body of a fat, lazy, greedy, slippery woman and marries a man who hates her to the bone. Song Yan died unjustly in his previous life an
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We Had to Pretend to Marry, So Why Are You Making It Real? 无奈假成亲，你却想假戏真做！
The moment Qin Sisi opened her eyes, she was faced with the deaths of both her parents and an aunt who wanted to sell her to a forty-year-old man. Furious, she brought back the fiancé she had driven away and laid down three rules before they married. Then she settled into a life of making money to support herself, her family, and her husband. Qin Sisi: “Let’s get a divorce!” Song Qingyan: “You’ve already had your way with me. Don’t you think you should take responsibility?” Qin Sisi… Qin Sisi ti
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The Princess Is Fierce and Beautiful, and Her Shadow Guard Keeps Crossing the Line 公主暴戾绝色，影卫日日以下犯上
[Strong heroine + Feel-good power fantasy + Yandere + Devoted loyalist] Fate played a cruel trick: the most powerful imperial princess on the Jiuzhou Continent was reborn in the body of a lovesick little princess from Western Qi. The moment she awoke, the world was shaken. A scumbag points at her and curses? She orders coldly, “Drag him out and give him fifty more lashes!” The overlord of the business world is her subordinate, the most revered emperor in Jiuzhou is her older brother, the mighty
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The Poorest County Magistrate's Wife in History Leads the Whole County to Prosperity 史上最穷县令夫人带全县百姓赚钱
Hang Ying, head of a reclusive modern-day clan, dies during an expedition and transmigrates into Yingzi, the wife of Xu Mengran, a penniless county magistrate in the Great Chu Empire. Who ever heard of a county magistrate being poor? Well, this one wears a patched robe, and his wife earns money washing and mending clothes to help him pursue a career in the imperial examinations. They have no maids or guards, the yamen runners look down on them, and a rich young lady even comes to their door to b
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A Spirit Spring in One Hand, a Pocket Dimension in the Other, and an Infinite Warehouse to Defy Fate 左灵泉，右空间，无限仓库要逆天
{Finished, top-rated} [Dual rebirth and transmigration + an infinite warehouse for a wild ancient-world shopping spree at zero cost + sign-in System + farming space + apocalyptic disasters in ancient times, pioneering and building from scratch] [Original title: Refusing the Raid! I Tear Apart the Scumbag and Empty the National Treasury Before Fleeing the Famine] [Also known as: Spirit Spring on the Left, Space on the Right, Infinite Warehouse Defies Heaven] Content warnings: The heroine has a ve
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I Bring a Trillion in Supplies and Become the Village’s Once-in-a-Century Girl 带万亿物资成全村百年才出的女娃
[Farming + pocket dimension + flight from famine + making a fortune + trillions in supplies + the whole village's darling] (The rating is low because it just opened, but it'll go up later!) Yun Xiyao died just before the apocalypse began, only to be reborn as the sole little girl in Yun Family Village. Not only did the trillions of supplies she'd stockpiled come with her, but so did the special ability she'd awakened before the apocalypse. Her new family is harmonious, and so is the whole villag
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Fleeing Famine with Trillions in Supplies, She Brings Prosperity to the Whole Village and Becomes Their Darling 逃荒：带万亿物资旺全村被团宠啦
Fleeing famine + farming + portable space + business success + doted-on heroine + fictional setting The rating has only just come in. It’ll go up later! Su Yao opened her eyes to find she had transmigrated into a fictional world as a five-year-old farm girl. As it happened, a drought struck just as she was fleeing famine. Worse still, the original owner had been beaten to death by her own mother. The moment she opened her eyes, she became a lamb for slaughter, about to be eaten. Luckily, kindhea
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Mind Reading and a Rental Home: I Transmigrate and Make the Whole Village Drool 读心术，带着出租屋穿越馋哭全村
[Farming + portable space + mind-reading + doted-on by the whole family + medicine + building from nothing + feel-good power fantasy] [A heads-up: This is mostly a heartwarming slice-of-life story, with one main goal: pure satisfaction! The heroine never has to suffer in silence. If someone wrongs her, she gets even! She is no self-sacrificing saint!] After graduating from a university of Chinese medicine, Jiang Fubao transmigrates to a fictional world with a rented apartment that automatically
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Swapping Brides in a Famine Year! The Wicked Bride Crushes Her Sick Husband on Their Wedding Night 灾年换亲！恶女新婚夜压死病夫君
[Feel-good farming + shop space + doting husband and wealth + raising children + miracle doctor + a female lead who is never softhearted or merciful] Special agent Lu Zhao opens her eyes to find herself in the body of the village's wicked, 200-jin woman! She's married off from the start! Her younger sister swaps brides with her, marrying the strong young son of the village chief, while Lu Zhao is sent off with two burdensome children to marry the sickly Mo Beiyan. On their wedding night, her eno
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Farming: Building a Fortune in Ancient Times 种田：我在古代发家致富
[Farming + No Toxic Family Members + Beloved by Everyone + Building Wealth + Heartwarming] Tang Lingling transmigrated into the Great Yao Kingdom, becoming a member of an ordinary family whose parents and grandparents had all fled famine. The family had barely any land and could only scrape by. Fortunately, both her parents were alive, the family got along well, and she also had a golden finger: a Species Collection System. She could collect species from the world and sell them to the System for
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In the Famine, the Whole Village Chews Tree Bark, but My System Fills My Storeroom with Meat 荒年全村啃树皮，我有系统满仓肉
[Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms.
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Reborn as a Farmer's Little Lucky Charm, I Cheat My Way Through the Famine Escape 穿成农家小福宝，逃荒路上开挂了
The Li family has a whole brood of boys, and at last they’ve had a little girl! Too bad it happened while they were fleeing famine… Granny Li: What are we going to do? Our precious little darling has no milk! Jiayin blows a spit bubble and waves her tiny hands: Don’t worry, I have a space and food of my own! And so… Fourth son Li: Ma, I found a nanny goat by the road! Fourth son Li’s wife: Ma, this rabbit ran right into a tree by itself! Third son Li: Ma, I went to fetch water, and a huge fish j
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She Only Wanted to Teach for a Living, but Every Student Turned Out to Be a Competition Maniac 她只想教书糊口，弟子却全是卷王
[No romance + teaching + adorable kids + farming + building wealth + infrastructure] A warm, slice-of-life story Zhang Ziruo transmigrates into the role of the evil adoptive mother of a tyrannical villain, destined for a tragic end. She plans to win the villain’s favor while he is still young, only to discover that he has been reborn... Taking stock of her new circumstances, she decides to open a school and become a teacher! She’ll raise the villain to be a virtuous, capable, open-minded, and po
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The Wicked Woman Has a Pocket Dimension. No More Fighting, Let's Live Well 恶妇有空间，不闹了，好好过日子
[Space + transmigration + everyday life + not a power fantasy] Su Ruyi is the infamous wicked daughter-in-law of Xinghua Village. At home, she throws her weight around, lazes about, and loves her food. She respects neither the old nor the young, and even knocked her own son into an idiot. One day, Su Ruyi takes the family’s money, planning to run off and live it up with her lover. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law catch her red-handed. Su Ruyi bangs her head... When she gets back up, Su Ruyi h
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I Became a Wicked Woman, but Raising Kids and Farming Is a Blast 穿成毒妇，带崽种田爽翻天
For years, Li Cuihua has focused on just one thing: cursing her husband when he's home, and abusing the children when he's away. Everyone says she's a genuine shrew and a lunatic. Fuyun, who barges into the situation, says that's complete nonsense and pure fabrication! Still, she rather likes this secret identity as a lunatic. During an argument, one line, “Keep talking and I'll go shit in your kitchen,” leaves her opponent speechless. During a fight, one line, “When I go crazy, I even beat myse
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After I Transmigrated, I Went on a Rampage in Another World 穿越后我在异世杀疯了
This is a story about transmigrating into an ancient world that exists outside recorded history. It has bustling marketplaces, merchants, princes and ministers, wandering heroes who leap across rooftops, conflicts between the martial world and the imperial court, and bloody wars between nations. When Mu Xi wakes up, she discovers she has transmigrated into a dynasty that has never existed before. Relying on her peerless martial prowess, she fights her way from the countryside into the halls of p
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I Build Infrastructure in Ancient Times 我在古代搞基建
[Woman Disguised as a Man + Infrastructure Building + Career-Focused + Fiercely Protective + Clear-Eyed Heroine] Original title: Building Infrastructure in Ancient Times Tang Yixuan, a brilliant engineer, transmigrates into the body of a woman who has taken her brother’s place as the new magistrate of Qingchuan County. To stay alive, she racks her brains and exhausts every resource at her disposal. She builds waterworks, raises tall buildings, paves roads with concrete, and constructs a city. Be
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I Became the Tycoon's Dark Moonlight 穿成大佬的黑月光
What do you do when your husband commits murder right in front of you? Asking for advice online. It’s pretty urgent! Xu Ning wakes up in the body of a poor girl whose father doesn’t care about her, whose mother doesn’t love her, and who has been abandoned by a scoundrel. To get revenge on him, she uses a trick to marry a lame scholar from Qingshui Village. The moment she opens her eyes, she sees her husband, the one she married by mistake, smashing someone’s head with a rock, blow after blow. Re
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The Fake Heiress Is Sweet and Charming, and Her Five Brothers Dote on Her 假千金又软又撩，五个哥哥宠上天
After Su Wan transmigrated into a book, she took one look at her character's setup and ending and fell into deep thought. She could have coasted to victory, but instead she had to court death. Was this really the standard ending for a vicious supporting female character? To change her fate, she decided to return to the countryside and cling to her five older brothers. After all, they would all become big shots one day. Her eldest brother would become a third-rank official at court. Her second br
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After Reaching Max Level in the Wasteland, I Transmigrated to a Famine Year and Became Empress 我在废土满级后，穿越荒年当女帝
A satisfying infrastructure-building power fantasy, not a matriarchal-world story. Ruan Xiang, ruler of the largest base in the wasteland, transmigrated into one of the refugees fleeing famine in ancient times. Finding water, irrigating fields, building filtration ponds, making bricks and building kilns, teaching people to read, pressing oil… To survive better, Ruan Xiang gathered every worker she could. Until she discovered that the imperial court was growing weak, the ministers were afraid
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A Family of Loyal Martyrs Forced into a Second Marriage, and the Comment Section Goes Wild 满门忠烈被逼当填房，弹幕杀疯了
[Past and present connected + two storylines running in parallel + women supporting women] It begins when Shen Shuangyu is branded a homewrecker for supposedly seducing her brother-in-law before her sister's death, then marries into a marquis's household as his second wife. She pours her heart and soul into managing the household, supporting her husband, and raising her stepson and stepdaughter, never uttering a single complaint. In the end, all she gets in return is: “She's doing this to atone.
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My Lord, Are You a Woman? 主公，你是女子？
[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
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Ding! With an Immortal Achievement, the Cousin Miss Starts Reading 叮，成就流芳百世，表小姐开卷了
Xu Yue transmigrates into a book. She becomes the delicate, vulnerable cousin of the male lead in an examination-themed novel: her mother died young, she has no brothers and no one to rely on, and her family won't take her in, so she is awkwardly forced to live in the male lead's home. In her previous life, Xu Yue rose from being an orphan to earning a doctorate. She never believed in fate, and even though it was hard for women to get by in ancient times, she never stopped thinking about how to
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A Guide to Raising an Apocalypse Empress 末世女帝养成指南
[Transmigrate + Struggle for Supremacy + Chaotic Era + Powerful Female Lead + Fleeing Famine + Infrastructure Building + No Romantic Pairing + Portable Space] Original title: Transmigrating Through Chaotic Times, the Mad Princess Builds a Nation by Robbing Others When Jiang Jin awoke, she discovered that she had become a princess of a fallen kingdom and was being sent to Liang City to become a plaything for the barbarian Jiao Liang. She thought about it and decided it would be better for others
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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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Yesterday Flowed into the City 昨日流入城
[Officialdom] + [Workplace] + [Business World] + [Family] A scholar, two business magnates, three boxing champions, four great families, the Gao family's five tigers, the Twelve Beauties of Jiangling, and 108 concubines... A man who had lost all hope and decided to lie flat is thrust into officialdom overnight, only to become the talk of the whole city as he indulges in wine, women, wealth, and power... Where does his path ultimately lead? Will there be an ending?
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The Flower-Pinned Young Man 簪花少年郎
When they first met, Qiao Yanan mistook the young man's sex, taking the breathtakingly beautiful youth for a girl. Thinking they were both fellow sufferers in this world, she treated “her” with great warmth, stirring the young man's heart. Once his identity was revealed, Qiao Yanan asked him to pose as her fake fiancé for her own safety. Having fallen for a beautiful young woman, the boy's heart beat faster and faster. He gladly accepted his new fiancée and did everything he could to turn their
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After Marrying the Sickly Crown Prince Who Practices Buddhism in Her Sister's Place, She Makes Him Break His Vows 替嫁给病弱佛修太子后，他破戒了
[Traditional Historical Romance + Household and Palace Intrigue + Rebirth Revenge Fantasy + Substitute Marriage + Powerful Hero and Heroine + Black Lotus] After jumping from the city tower, Jiang Nanzhi and her legitimate elder sister, Jiang Tanxin, are both reborn. In her previous life, Jiang Tanxin gave up her childhood sweetheart, the young lord Shen Che, to become the Crown Princess, and schemed to make Jiang Nanzhi marry Shen Che as her substitute. But who could have guessed that the Crown
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