Past and Present Lives, Stunning Palace Intrigue 前世今生，绝美宫斗
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Sister-in-Law, Open Up! Your Brother’s Body Is Buried! 皇嫂开门，皇兄的尸埋好了！
[Both leads are sexually inexperienced + uncle and sister-in-law + emotional push and pull + seduction and sex + bickering couple + equally powerful leads + happy ending] Empress Su Li had a dream. In the dream, Emperor Jingchang took her south to Jiangnan, then poisoned her at an inn and made it look like she had taken her own life. After her death, Emperor Jingchang conspired to have every member of her maternal family, the Duke of Zhenguo’s household, executed. When she opened her eyes, it
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Her Husband Wants to Support Two Households? She Kicks the Jerk to the Curb and Marries Up 夫君兼祧两房？她踹了渣男攀高枝
[Reborn + face-slapping and scumbag punishment + satisfying revenge + sweet romance + stunning, formidable heroine + scheming hero] Yun Zheng was the only daughter of Great Qi's richest tycoon, wealthy enough to rival a nation. In her previous life, she married into the Marquis's household with a lavish bridal procession, only to become a laughingstock on her wedding night. Her husband held a wedding ceremony with his first love, taking her as a second wife alongside Yun Zheng. His mother sma
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An Imperial Betrothal: The Fearsome Prince Is a Peerless Beauty 赐婚，煞神王爷竟是绝世美男
[Powerful and devoted couple + satisfying takedowns + lighthearted comedy + sweet romance] Yin Yue was born into a family of renowned physicians. A single pill could spark a mad scramble, and her mastery of poisons was enough to strike fear into anyone who heard of it. A major figure in the medical world, she unexpectedly transmigrates after a car accident. In Yunli Kingdom, Yin Yue is the plain and untalented eldest daughter of the prime minister's household. She is betrothed to Xiao Lingya
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The Prince Regent’s Little Ancestor is Both Beautiful and Stunning 摄政王的小祖宗又美又飒
[Strong Female Lead + Secret Identity + Fake and Real Heiresses + Face-Slapping + Satisfying Story + Soul Transmigration + Medical Consort + Palace Intrigue + Devoted Couple + Sweet Romance + Putting Scumbags in Their Place] Su Ruojin was the eldest daughter of Lin, the prefect of Yanyang. She grew up in the residence under the care of Old Madam Lin, with a father who didn’t care for her and a mother who didn’t love her. When Prefect Lin finally found his biological daughter, he threw Su Ruojin
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Elder Sister, Your Emperor Is Mine Now 长姐，你的陛下是我的了
Original title: Tell Me, Your Majesty, Exactly How Many Men Have You Had Children With? [Palace intrigue + the male lead’s redemption arc + neither lead is chaste + three sons and one daughter + physician consort + scheming, delicate beauty] Yun Yan’s death was the unanimous decision of her entire family, made solely to use her child to pave the way for her elder sister, the empress. Five years later. Defying death, Yun Yan returns with a new face and takes the name Shen Zhiyi. On the surface, s
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Move Aside, Fat Orange Cat! Consort Hua Is Mine 胖橘滚开，华妃是我的
Note: The female lead is an original character, and the author made up her family background. Two female leads! Two female leads! Please check the tags before reading! There’s also mind-reading, though it doesn’t really do much. Niohuru Yiyao is the legitimate daughter of the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate. Half a month before the imperial selection, she read a story and was captivated by Consort Hua, a woman who loved and hated fiercely. Then she unexpectedly discovered that the characte
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Consort Hua Reborn: My Brother and I Plot Rebellion 华妃重生：本宫和哥哥谋反了
Reborn into a new life, Nian Shilan is still domineering and ruthless, even more so than in her previous life. That cheating tomcat can go to whoever wants him. Consort Hua wants no part of him anymore. Not for fans of Zhen Huan. Enter at your own risk. Iconic Scene 1: Yinzhen confronts Yu Ying'er Yinzhen: Am I not even as good as a eunuch? Yu Ying'er: Have you looked at all those wrinkles on your face? Do you have no self-awareness? Iconic Scene 2: Their first meeting in the imperial garden,
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I Transmigrated into Empresses in the Palace as a Princess, and Finally Found Peace 穿进甄嬛传当公主，再无意难平
[Everyone’s favorite + System + reborn + princess + healing + wishes fulfilled + raising a child + no romance] The Forbidden City has good feng shui for raising people, though it has also buried far too many beautiful women. To collect the consorts’ happiness points and complete her mission, Ning Xuan transmigrates with a System. But she ends up as the daughter of Yixiu, who has been reborn. In this life, there will be no more regrets. Watch Ning Xuan protect every consort and keep them safe. Ni
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Yixiu and Nian Shilan Reborn: Allies in Revenge 宜修与年世兰双重生结盟复仇
After Yixiu and Nian Shilan die, they find themselves in a space run by a Grievance-Removal System. It tells them that their grievances are too great for them to be reincarnated, but offers them a chance to be reborn and live their lives over again, taking revenge on those who wronged them and settling their scores to dispel their resentment. What choices will they make when they return to the past? Watch as they bring Zhen Huan down, kill the emperor, put Honghui on the throne, and help Hongyan
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The Stunning Legitimate Daughter Opens Her Eyes, and Royal Families Across the Nations Dote on Her 绝色嫡女一睁眼，各国皇室团宠了
[Rebirth + Revenge Against Scumbags + Sweet Romance] In her previous life, she was blind and foolish, helping her husband rise to power. But once he had achieved success, he discarded her like a used tool. Her grandfather’s entire family and her upright father, the Minister of Rites, were branded with infamy and executed. She herself died with child, unable to rest in peace. At last, Heaven takes pity on her, and she is reborn. In this life, she will protect her family and crush the scumbag man
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Past and Present Lives: The Mad Emperor's Relentless Love 前世今生：疯批帝王强索爱
In her previous life, Shen Yunmiao deceived the man she loved, betrayed the man who loved her, and mistreated the man who was loyal to her. Given another chance at life, she decides to stay far away from those men. So why won’t any of them leave her alone? PS: Multiple male leads.
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You Take a Concubine Right in Front of Me? Then I'll Marry Your Father on the Spot 当面纳小妾？那我就当场改嫁你爹
In her past life, a scumbag and a vicious woman joined forces to torment her to death. Reborn, she turns the Marquis’s household upside down and becomes its mistress!
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A Harem of My Own: How to Become the Emperor's One True Love 综后宫之如何成为帝王的白月光
Each volume is a standalone story. What’s it like to become the beloved consort and one true love of emperors throughout history? A sweet, sweet, utterly pampered life as a favored consort! Volume One: The far-sighted Kangxi Emperor × the gentle, timid little white rabbit Wang Lingxiu: the gentle type of one true love Volume Two: Qin Shi Huang × the pampered, high-maintenance flower kept in a gilded cage
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After I Transmigrated into a Book, the Female Supporting Character Was Forced into a Marriage of Wealth and Power 穿书后女配她被强娶豪夺了
Shen Yue sacrificed herself for the Dao during the war between immortals and demons, but when she woke up, she discovered she had entered a storybook. The Heavenly Dao told her that this was actually a small world. Due to its own mistake, the woman originally destined to hold its fortune had died, and the power of fortune had fallen into someone else's hands. If Shen Yue wants to escape her fate as a disposable character, she must make one of the fated sons fall in love with her and reclaim the
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After the Crown Prince Ascends the Throne, He Seizes His Cannon-Fodder Cousin 太子登基后，炮灰表妹被强夺了
Signed for publication [Forced marriage + cold, aloof crown prince with a dark heart and ruthless methods + clear-headed, laid-back, beautiful cousin + a touch of reverse-harem appeal + tangled love triangle + doting romance] Gu Sui'an, an agricultural research scientist, was reborn in the womb and turned into the male lead's cannon-fodder cousin in the political intrigue novel Marrying the Emperor. In this dangerous ancient world where she had no rights, all she wanted was to coast through li
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Bear Me an Heir, and I’ll Let You Reunite With Your Ex-Husband 为朕生子留后！就准你跟前夫团聚
Shen Yuanwei transmigrated. Only she could save the dying God of War, and the childless emperor needed her to bear him an heir. When asked which one she would save, she said, “Can’t I save them both?” So she married the cold and aloof God of War. On their wedding day, the childless emperor sensed her extraordinary fertility and stole his subject’s wife, taking her into the palace to bear him a child. “You can call me shameless or a tyrant, but if you bear me a child, I’ll spare your former hus
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Her Captor 禁锢她
She is Le An, the beloved youngest daughter of the Great Yu emperor. Before she turned sixteen, she could have anything she wanted. After she turned sixteen, the father who loved her most passed away. Once her older brother ascended the throne, the first thing he did was send her to Northern Di as a hostage. Even the young general of Great Yu, the man her father had chosen as her betrothed, approved of this decision. All because the one who was supposed to be sent as a hostage was her brother's
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I've Suffered Enough in My Last Life. I'd Rather Die Than Marry Him Again 上辈子苦够了，打死她都不嫁了
Shen An'an came from a distinguished family and was both talented and beautiful. As soon as she came of age, she was betrothed to the fourth prince, Xiao Yuan, a man of heavenly beauty and noble character, and the dream lover of every young lady in the capital. Heaven had dealt her a winning hand. Even she once believed she was blessed beyond measure, until her girlish heart was shattered into pieces. She suffered every kind of pain at the hands of that graceful, refined man, and paid a devastat
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Coerced into Submission 强取豪夺，被迫臣服
[Transmigration + possessive love + both pure + groveling pursuit + tragic ending] Lin Xi transmigrated to ancient times and made a modest living with her medical skills. By chance, she saved Xiao Muyang twice, and he set his sights on her. She only wanted a quiet life in the Northern Frontier, but someone schemed to bring her to the capital. There, she became trapped in the imperial palace, where he took her by force and kept her confined. Xiao Muyang was a decisive general who had clawed his w
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The Yandere Emperor's Most Cherished One 病娇帝王心尖宠
Note: This is NOT a strong female lead story!!!! Yandere. The female lead is not chaste!!! Includes forced confinement!!! The male lead is an emperor, and the female lead is very weak!!!! The leads were connected in their previous lives. In the fourth year of Huicheng, the emperor of the Great Chen Dynasty went on an undercover inspection. When he returned, he brought back a young widow with a child. But the widow didn’t seem to have gone with him willingly. They were often at odds. The minis
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On Our Wedding Night, the Obsessive Crown Prince Took Me to the Eastern Palace 成亲当晚，偏执太子夺我入东宫
The aloof, possessive Crown Prince × the dazzling beauty who loves money Everyone in the Eastern Palace knows that the Crown Princess was snatched away from someone else by the Crown Prince. Once the Crown Prince, as elegant as jade and as clear as moonlight, fell into the sea of love, there was no climbing back out. He Yue transmigrated to ancient times and became the owner of a rouge shop. She wasn’t rich or powerful, but her life was peaceful and carefree. Then one day, the woman she liv
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The Ungrateful Brats My Original Self Raised: After Transmigrating into a Book, I’m Done with Them 原主养的白眼狼，穿书后她不管了
[The Ungrateful Ones Are All Reborn, 1vN, Feel-Good Revenge, No Forgiveness] Chu Ningzhao had read countless novels, but this was the first time a book had made her so furious she wanted to die. In the story, the villainess with the same name was a complete sucker. From a young age, she devoted herself to supporting her little brother. She won over worthy ministers and trained military commanders until he finally took the throne. But when victory was theirs, everyone gave the credit to her young
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My Imperial Brother Imprisoned Me, So I Captured His Heart 皇兄囚我，我囚帝心
Just started posting, hope the numbers go up [Ancient Romance, Both Pure + Forcible Possession + Fake Siblings + The Emperor Takes His Minister's Wife + Hero Deeply Ensnared by Love] The first thing the new emperor did after ascending the throne was seize his royal sister's husband, then wait for her to come to the palace and beg him. Domineering, obsessive, devoted emperor × beautiful, scheming, delicate princess On the broad imperial bed, the woman is forced into the farthest corner. The emper
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Minister of Justice, the Emperor Has Stolen Your Beloved 寺卿，你的挚爱被皇帝抢走了
(Transmigration with the body intact + 1v2 + all male leads are devoted + a little angst + the men are head over heels for her) They say Court Minister Yun Jing is ruthless and cold-hearted. So who is this man gazing at a woman with such tenderness, smiling so warmly? He Qinghuan unexpectedly found herself in another world, where the peerless Court Minister had fallen deeply in love with her. She loved him too. One day, the noble and majestic emperor murmured to her with deep affection, “Qinghua
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She Refused to Be the Crown Prince's Concubine and Married into the Prince's Manor. Now He Regrets It 拒为东宫妾，嫁王府，太子悔晕
Face-slapping * Punishing Scumbags * No Forgiveness * No Suffering in Silence * Two Strong Leads * Mutual Purity * Sweet Devotion Gu Xiyuan, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Pingyang, had loved the Crown Prince for two years. To support his disaster-relief efforts, she donated two hundred thousand taels of silver. Yet the Crown Prince wanted her younger female cousin to become the future Crown Princess and, as though bestowing a favor, would only make her a side consort. Simply because
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The Night Before My Ungrateful Sister Entered the Palace, the Favored Consort Was Reborn 白眼狼妹妹进宫前夜，宠妃重生了
[A spoiled, sweetly obedient favorite consort VS a gentle, jade-like emperor who's sweet on the outside and ruthless within (they are not each other's first, but he dotes on her exclusively from the beginning to the end)] Jiang Shuyi's life as a favorite consort went smoothly for fifteen years. The emperor was gentle and benevolent, doting on her without restraint, and not a single woman in the harem dared challenge her. But she was blind to her own sister's treachery. In the end, her closest
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Reborn and Married Off: I Become the Mistress of the Prince's Manor 重生换亲：我在王府当主母
Shen Wantang's reborn elder sister stole her engagement and pushed the Prince of Ning's heir, who had become a monk, on her. “The prince's residence is grand and splendid. Little sister, go enjoy your good fortune!” Shen Wantang laughed. “Then thank you, Sister.” Was she not reborn too? In her previous life, her elder sister married the Prince of Ning's heir and drove the woman he loved to her death. He would rather die for love than live as her husband. After he died, her sister was imprisoned.
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Tear Apart the Harem! Win Favor! She's a Lunatic, Who Dares Cross Her? 撕后宫！得恩宠！她是疯批谁敢惹
[Palace Intrigue Only + Concubine-born Daughter + Reborn + Revenge + Everyone Is Evil + Wish-Fulfillment] [The story begins before the heroine enters the palace] [The emperor favors no one at first, and the heroine doesn’t fall in love] Jiang Shiying had died once. She died in childbirth, after her own elder sister had her killed to keep the baby. Reborn, she had made up her mind: she would enter the palace and get revenge, but she wouldn’t suffer! Not her stepmother or her elder sister, not eve
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Years in the Palace 岁岁宫阙
Liu Yuetang was sent to a country estate by her legitimate mother the day she was born. When she came of age, her older half-sister gave up her chance to enter the palace because of a dream, stole her match, and spent the night with her betrothed. Liu Yuetang went along with it and decided to enter the palace to carve out a bright future for herself. Once inside, she kept a low profile, learned the arts of the bedchamber, and mastered the art of playing hard to get, pouting coquettishly, and put
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The Earl’s Household Turns Its Fortune Around 伯府翻身记事
Lin Yunzhu lands in a novel written for male readers as the second-born illegitimate daughter of the villainous Yongning Earl’s household. Her legitimate elder sister is a snobbish woman who broke off her engagement when the male lead was down on his luck. The original character is a scheming woman who seduces the female lead’s fiancé. Her younger half-sister is a little white lotus. Her eldest brother is bad at business, and the family is so poor they’re about to run out of food. Her second bro
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After Getting the Black Moonlight Script, I Won Him Over 手拿黑月光剧本后，我攻略成功了
[Game-focused + hammy heroine + unscrupulous methods + torturing the male lead] [A happy-ever-after ending for herself alone] Want to get rich? Yes! The overworked corporate drone Zhou Linyu dreams of it! For the sake of a happy future, she enters a gaming challenge developed by Huanyu Games. If she can clear the final boss, [Pei Yu], she’ll win five million yuan! Zhou Linyu enters the game full of confidence: The first time, she’s Pei Yu’s childhood sweetheart, and she’s poisoned to death.
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The Tyrant Holds Me by the Waist. So What If I’m Wicked? 被暴君揽腰宠，本宫恶毒又如何？
[Palace intrigue + male lead has had other women, heroine is chaste + doted on exclusively later + heroine is sweet on the outside but dark within, wicked and a good actress, occasionally goes off the rails, happy ending] With skin as pure as ice and bones as fine as jade, her beauty could topple a city, stunning all who saw her… That year, she entered the palace by imperial decree to keep her pregnant elder sister company. She never expected to be trapped there for good, reduced to a fish on he
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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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From the Start, I Snatched the Embroidered Ball: Will Becoming a Live-in Son-in-Law Stop Her From Taking Power? 开局抢绣球，入赘影响她当权臣吗
[Female-Supremacist World + Court Intrigue + Women Stronger Than Men + One-on-One Romance + Sweet Doting] [Refined Scoundrel, Scholarly Imperial Tutor × Lively, Proud Heiress to a Wealthy Merchant House] Before Lou Yushen became a live-in son-in-law, the standard for a good one was simple: don't covet the family's wealth, and don't take anyone's life. Lou Yushen thought, The people who came before me sure made the path easy! One day, while coaxing someone, she said, “Since the world is so lenien
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After Transmigrating to a Matriarchal World, She Spoiled Her Hapless Shadow Guard 穿越女尊后，她把倒霉暗卫宠上天
[Matriarchal society + sweet romance + one-on-one + devoted to each other] [Calculating and ruthless princess × obedient, loyal guard] The capital's good-for-nothing Second Princess is beaten in the street by another woman for pursuing a man, then crashes into a stone lion. After recovering from her serious injuries, the Second Princess seems like a completely different person: kind to others, uninterested in competing, and always helping her sisters. It isn't until the day this powerful princes
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Transmigrating to the Seventies: This Laid-Back Fish Turns Things Around and Goes Back to Lounging 穿越七零，咸鱼翻身继续躺
Before transmigrating, Qiao Niannian was a couch potato who never got anywhere. Then fate dumped her into the grueling 1970s. Since she’d transmigrated, she might as well keep working toward a lazy, comfortable life. Things got off to a rough start, but she grew more determined with every setback. She braved the black market to make ends meet and went to college to keep up with the times. She started a business, made a little money, and soon life was looking lovely. Then she landed a gorgeous hu
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You Want a Secondary Wife? I’ll Marry Your Third Uncle in a Ten-Mile Bridal Procession! 求娶平妻？十里红妆嫁你三叔！
Everyone in the capital knew that Shen Zhao, the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Personnel, was deeply in love with the eldest son of the Cui family. But no one knew that the emperor had personally arranged the marriage between the Shen and Cui families. Cui Shaoqing had been engaged to Shen Zhao for ten years, yet had never cared about her. Only later did Shen Zhao understand that Cui Shaoqing favored women with pride and backbone. She had wasted all her affection and put up with every i
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Offending the Imperial Daughter 惹金枝
(Film and television rights have been sold. The physical book will be available for preorder on July 10 at 19:00.) Shi Buyu was born smiling. At that moment, lightning flashed and thunder roared, collapsing a row of outbuildings in the Shi family compound. Days of torrential rain brought devastating floods and countless victims. Rumors soon spread through the capital that she was a disaster star sent into the world. But she was as precocious as a demon, with a photographic memory, and learned bo
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The Treacherous Minister Can't Resist Her Allure 奸臣不经撩
Later, when Shen Gongchen pressed her too hard, Liu Suisui covered her face and wept. She was terribly aggrieved. “My father died, my mother remarried, and I have no one to rely on. I came all the way to the capital just to marry a rich husband. What’s wrong with that?” Shen Gongchen pressed her at every turn. “He has to be rich? Why not rich and powerful?” Liu Suisui raised her eyes ever so slightly and gave him a shy, coquettish glance. After a long pause, she asked softly, “Uncle… do you like
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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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Man Cao, the Farm Girl 农女蔓草
[Fictional setting + Farming + No space + No System] At twenty, Jiang Mancang was diagnosed with terminal cancer. A year later, on her twenty-first birthday, she died and transmigrated into the body of a farming girl. Seeing her father with a severed hand, her mentally disabled younger brother, her mother reduced to skin and bones, and her little sister still in swaddling clothes, she couldn’t help stepping forward to shield them from the pack of wolves at their door. After the family split up,
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The Prince Won't Hold Back 皇叔不经撩
The short drama adaptation of Yue Xia's novel The Beloved 2: The Beloved Fierce Wife is now streaming on Hongguo, while The Beloved 1: The Unruly Imperial Uncle is currently a hit. In a bonus scene at the end of The Beloved 2, Chen Jinning, the peach-blossom general Song Xixixi, and Luo Jinshu, Chief Director of the Heavenly War Medical Bureau, meet up in a crossover. The Chief Director of the Heavenly War Medical Bureau transmigrates into the orphan Luo Jinshu of the Great Yan Dynasty. As soon
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After Becoming Cannon Fodder in a Palace Intrigue Novel, I Just Lie Flat 穿成宫斗文炮灰后，我直接躺平了
[Mind Reading + Everyday Life + Harem Intrigue + Sweet Romance + Not a Pure Couple] Ye Shu transmigrated into a novel about a heroine rising to power through palace intrigue. Other transmigrators came with their own pocket dimensions or Systems, but she had nothing at all. Worse, she became a cannon-fodder supporting character from the original story. After framing the pregnant heroine, she was sent to the Cold Palace by the male lead and given poisoned wine. She died horribly, without even anyo
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Shocking! The Invisible Noble Consort Is a Hidden Powerhouse 惊！后宫透明贵妃竟是隐藏大佬
After five years in the palace, Noble Consort Nangong Jingshu had been forgotten by the imperial harem, like an invisible woman. An accident revealed to Chu Yuqian that he had twin sons, and turned his attention to the noble consort he had forgotten. The more he learned about her, the more he realized her identity was shrouded in mystery, and her many secret identities were beyond anyone's reach. From then on, Chu Yuqian became a devoted husband, and together they wrote an unconventional love st
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Transmigrated as a Lowly Royal Concubine, She Uses Her System to Slack Off and Become a Rich Lady 穿成皇家卑微外室，她带着系统摆烂当富婆
After accidentally transmigrating into the role of a prince's mistress, she is told by the System that if she focuses on her career and keeps out of trouble, she can regain her freedom and receive a huge sum of money! Can something this good really be true? Isn't this the ideal life?
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The Entire Harem Is Cool as Chrysanthemums, So I Win the Emperor’s Heart by Outworking Them 后宫全员人淡如菊，我靠内卷独得帝心
[Transmigration + scheming beauty + palace intrigue + ambitious heroine who is focused on her career vs. perceptive but tight-lipped, cold emperor + clear-headed surrender] Su Yin transmigrated into the harem as the lowest-ranking palace woman. This harem seemed rather unusual. The emperor was handsome and refined, but all the concubines had given up and had no interest in competing for his favor. Each had her own reason for giving up. The empress was determined to become a virtuous ruler and en
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The Empress Dowager's Retirement Life 太后的退休生活
[Palace intrigue + female lead is the mastermind behind the scenes + no romance + plot-driven + ensemble cast] After transmigrating to the Great Jing dynasty, Su Minqing entered the palace as the empress. She worked tirelessly at palace intrigue for over a decade and finally fought her way to becoming the Empress Dowager. The only catch was that there was another Empress Dowager in the palace besides her. As the emperor’s adoptive mother, she was named the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces. The
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The Empress Bewitches and Tempts, While the Emperor Willingly Falls 娘娘魅惑勾人，帝王自甘堕落
(Transmigration + Green Tea + Scheming + Harem Intrigue + Crown Prince) Crown Prince Xiao Jingchen had grown up in the palace, accustomed to seeing the beautiful women of the harem and how they fought tooth and nail for the emperor. When he met Ling Qingqing, the innocent daughter of a general, he fell for her at first sight. He often asked his uncle to take her out of the palace so he could find an excuse to see her. When they grew up, he got his wish and married her as his crown princess. They
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The Emperor Is Infertile, Yet He and His Scheming Palace Maid Have a Secret Romance and Many Children 皇帝不孕，和心机宫女地下恋多胎
[A scheming, beautiful young palace maid + a cunning, possessive emperor] What does it feel like to have a secret affair with the emperor in ancient times? Su Jin transmigrates into the body of a nine-year-old beggar girl in ancient times. With a little luck and a lot of cunning, she makes her way into the palace and becomes a favorite of the empress. She never expects to catch the eye of the abstinent, aloof crown prince as well. She doesn’t want to be the other woman, but imperial power rules
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Sweet Country Days: The Top-Grade Couple’s Daily Battles Against Scum 田园蜜语：极品夫妻虐渣日常
After transmigrating as the poor soul whose betrothal was switched and whose dowry was stolen, Song Ruyi makes one thing clear: you want to live off her while acting like a big shot? Not a chance. Song Ruyi decides that things have worked out for the best. Her new husband is wonderful, and most importantly, those eight-pack abs are absolutely delicious. Song Ruyi insists she isn’t just attracted to his looks. The main thing is that her husband is clever, flexible, and not rigid, and he listens t
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