Looking for Recommendations for Historical Romance!!! 古言求推荐！！！
Translated by GPT-6 Luna
In this list
Reader notes translated by Google Translate
79
-
51
My Sweet, Scheming Husband Keeps Losing His Mind 我那又娇又茶的夫君稳定发疯
The unfavored legitimate daughter of the Mu family is ordered by imperial decree to marry the crown prince, Zhou Jing, who is at death's door, to bring him good luck. Plenty of people wait to laugh at her, saying she might just end up bringing him luck by killing him in bed. When Zhou Jing opens his eyes, he finds himself with a fiancée. The young woman is clearly terrified of him, but still can't help swearing her loyalty. “Your Highness, I'll treat you very well.” “Your Highness, after you pas
42.6kReads9.4Score5kShelves
-
52
Dreaming with the Cold, Powerful Official: The Sweetheart Blushes and Her Heart Races 与清冷权臣共梦，娇娇脸红心跳
[Sweet romance + devoted couple] Fourth Miss Jiang lost both her parents when she was young. She has spent years hidden away in the inner quarters of the Jiang household, never meeting anyone. After coming of age, rumors spread that she is ugly and timid as a mouse, prompting her fiancé to break off their engagement. But on the day the engagement is called off, the man who arrives isn’t her fiancé. It’s his uncle, the man who visits her dreams every night. Jiang Fu has a secret. Ever since she c
20.1kReads9.2Score2.5kShelves
-
53
Why Not Cross the River Together? 何不同舟渡
"The print edition under the same title is available to buy online" [No golden finger, no transmigration, no rebirth. A pure historical romance about family and country, with high-IQ espionage and political intrigue] [A double agent undercover + a petty thief who grows: a lone wolf plays a game of raising a rabbit, gives her fangs, then insists they run away together] In a chaotic age, she is a thief worth less than a blade of grass, willing to do whatever it takes to stay alive. She steals ten
193.1kReads9.7Score47.7kShelves
-
54
On the Day of the Wake, My Sisters-in-Law Put Me on the Throne 守灵当天，我被众嫂嫂推上皇位
[Alternate Dynasty + Transmigration + War + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + The Golden Finger Has Been Cut in Half] A high school boy named Tian Shu wakes up one morning in an ancient funeral hall. His widowed sisters-in-law swarm around him, showering him with care. In a feudal age of chaos, the powerful clans hold sway. The System is practically useless, and each sister-in-law has her own agenda. Born into a poor family, can he defy fate, change his destiny, command a vast empire, and mak
6.2kReads8.8Score240Shelves
Reader note
-
55
The Marquess's Wife Wants to Die of Old Age in Peace 侯府主母要寿终正寝
A history major pulls an all-nighter and dies suddenly, only to become Chen Yuhu, the matriarch of an ancient household, with no golden finger whatsoever. But you have to learn to be content. As a modern, clear-eyed college student, Chen Yuhu wants to tell the original matriarch: don't be such a lovesick fool. Treasure your life of immense wealth and status. She certainly does. She sends her biased mother-in-law away to cultivate in seclusion, keeps the obedient and pretty concubine around to pl
55.6kReads9.2Score5.8kShelves
Reader note
-
56
Storing Charm 储媚色
Li You transmigrated into a book, becoming the delicate, flowerlike heroine of a historical romance about political intrigue and tragic love, a heroine the male lead would torment in body, heart, and soul from beginning to end. But the moment she arrived, Li You discovered that her cousin, the story's wicked second female lead, had been reborn. So she was about to be demoted to a mere cannon-fodder character? Li You: "..." Fine, let me lie down for a while. On her wedding day, her cousin didn't
14.3kReads9.1Score1.7kShelves
Reader note
-
57
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
78.8kReads9.2Score11.1kShelves
-
58
I’m Here to Get Rich, Not Cultivate Immortality 我只发财不修仙
#Lighthearted comedy [Aloof, abstinent Emperor x junior sister who only cares about making money] The gentle, bookish eldest senior brother is actually the Demon Lord? The goofy second senior brother is the heir of the Tang Clan! The cold, aloof third senior sister is a cross-dressing hidden big shot, the scheming Emperor? Third Senior Sister, Second Senior Brother has been captured. Third Senior Sister, Eldest Senior Brother has been captured. Third Senior Sister, Eldest Senior Brother, Second
16Reads8.0Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
59
Winning Over the Young Lord of Miaojiang 攻略苗疆少主
Chu He transmigrates into a book. [The villain will kill the male lead, cripple the female lead, and then commit suicide out of hatred for the world. This world is about to collapse, and your mission is to save it.] The lousy System vanishes after assigning the mission. Before Chu He can even figure out what to do, she is kidnapped to Miaojiang, where she becomes the perfect mother Gu for the medicine people to cultivate their Gu. Medicine people aren’t human and have no memories of their past.
267.3kReads9.4Score33.8kShelves
Reader note
-
60
A Farm Girl at Dawn, in the Emperor's Court by Dusk 朝为田舍娘，暮登天子堂
[Female Lead Transmigrates + Unfavored Prince + Mutual Attraction + Powerful Hero and Heroine + Faithful to Each Other + Hero Gets a Major Taste of His Own Medicine + Lighthearted Villain-Bashing + Slight Mystery + Political Intrigue + Butterfly Effect] [What do you mean the heroine was just quietly living her own life, but the other princes went looking for trouble all by themselves!?] Modern-day trainee police officer Shen Zhizhen transmigrates in her sleep, only to find herself in a deserted
—Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
61
Transmigrated to Become the Emperor’s Shameless Empress 穿越之帝的无耻皇后
She was a money-loving young woman who transmigrated from the twenty-first century, only to run into a cold-faced emperor who wore a permanent scowl. Hmph! If you want to give me the cold shoulder, then I'll just run away from home... Xuejian invites you to read.
3Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
62
After His Wife Yielded Her Place to the Talented Female Deputy General, the Duke's Estate Went Bankrupt 夫人让贤女副将后，国公府破产了
At the victory banquet, Xu Songhe saw her husband tie her jade pendant around the waist of his female deputy general. His eyes were full of affection. “It's just a trinket. You can have it.” She wanted her mother's keepsake back. All she got in return was his scolding that she was “unworthy of it.” When she discovered that her mother-in-law had thrown her parents' memorial tablets into the pigsty, her heart finally died. She flung down a divorce agreement and decisively reclaimed every bit of he
43Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
63
The Mad Pursuit of the Golden Beauty 疯夺金娇
[Content warning: The male lead is sexually inexperienced! This will be explained later in the story! The female lead isn't particularly clever! This is not a wish-fulfillment story! This is not a wish-fulfillment story! This is not a wish-fulfillment story! Important things are said three times. If you're dropping the story, please don't tell me!] [Brainless villainess and scheming heir apparent] [Features confinement later on] As the legitimate daughter of the Duke's mansion, Jiang Yuemian had
617Reads6.3Score100Shelves
-
64
I Pulled Out My Son’s Pacifier. He Wailed, and I Laughed 拔儿子奶嘴，他哇哇哭我哈哈笑
Completed! ❗️ [Raising Kids + Adorable Children] The eldest daughter of the Gu family is married to an emperor, and her son is the crown prince. She had a winning hand, yet threw it all away by eloping with someone else. When Gu Nuo first transmigrated, she was holding a bowl of poison. The System told her she was about to poison her emperor husband and run away with her lover! What? Had she lost her mind and grown tired of living? Gu Nuo smashed the bowl. Worried that her plot to murder the emp
10.7kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
Reader note
-
65
Three Feet of Spring 三尺春【王嘉懋、李十七主演 短剧同名原著小说热播中！！！】
The captivating beauty Li Shuwan, whose background is shrouded in mystery × the aloof, proud General Li Fengyuan, hard-mouthed but soft-hearted Ancient romance + premium novel + one-on-one romance + both leads' first love + sweet romance + mutual devotion + palace intrigue + simmering tension + secret crush + age gap + reunion after years apart When she was seven, Li Shuwan was brought back from the countryside to the General's Mansion, becoming Li Fengyuan's relative in name only. Knowing her
23.7kReads9.4Score3kShelves
-
66
Snap Off a Crabapple Branch! 折棠枝！
[Sisters switch marriages+the chase-back-to-win-her-heart trope+romantic rivalry+putting scumbags in their place; clear-eyed, scheming beauty X mad tyrant X aloof, powerful minister...] Short drama now available Jiang Wantang is the second legitimate daughter least favored by the current prime minister. With incomparable beauty and bewitching charm, she was abandoned in the wilderness and remained unknown to the world. Her elder legitimate sister was the moon in the sky; she was the mud beneath
14kReads8.9Score1.9kShelves
-
67
There Was Once a Young Man in Chang'an ("A Thousand Miles of High Towers, Untouched by Wind or Snow") 长安曾有少年郎（“高台千里，勿沾风雪”）
[Revenge and court intrigue + childhood sweethearts + tragic palace romance + maximum angst] [Loyal young general VS coldhearted heiress bent on revenge VS gentle, devoted emperor. A tangled love between three people, with heartbreak that cuts to the bone] Qing Ru'an's life was buried beneath the fire that raged through the snowstorm that year. Her entire family was slaughtered, both her parents were gone, and the Qing family, the richest in Zizhou, was reduced to ruins overnight. The once-proud
4kReads9.4Score1kShelves
-
68
Jade Between the Lips 衔玉
[Delicate, Sickly Aristocratic Lady Lin Yu VS Cold, Tsundere Embroidered Uniform Guard Li Heming] [Historical Romance + One-on-One Romance + Household Intrigue + Secret Crush + Sweet Romance + Marriage Before Love + Devoted Hero + Happy Ending] The year Lin Yu broke off her engagement to Li Heming, rumors spread that she had done so because Li Heming had risen to become the Northern Commandant of the Embroidered Uniform Guard by stepping over the corpses of court officials. Lin Yu was frail, and
36.5kReads9.4Score5.1kShelves
-
69
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
29.7kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
-
70
The Beautiful, Sweet Princess of a Fallen Kingdom and the Mad Emperor Who Loves Her Obsessively 亡国公主美又娇，病娇疯帝强制爱
(Main story complete) The groveling chase for a wife + the beloved of everyone + forced love + taking by force + devoted to each other Rebellious princess of a fallen kingdom VS possessive, sickly tyrant On their wedding night, the Chu army broke through the city walls. Dressed in her bright red wedding gown, Su Mian had waited six years for Chu Junqi, only to receive his furious revenge. She became a prisoner, a caged bird, and the new emperor of Chu's plaything. Three years ago, that man had l
5kReads7.6Score390Shelves
-
71
After His Wife and Children Were Brutally Killed, the Tyrant Made His White Moonlight Empress 妻儿惨死，暴君在封白月光为后
[Reborn + remorseful pursuit of the wife + devoted couple + court intrigue + historical romance] In her previous life, Xiao Yan was demoted from crown prince to commoner. Lin Zhaoyue helped him return to the Eastern Palace and ascend the throne. He once promised she would be empress and that they would spend their lives together. But later, she could only watch helplessly as he married another woman. He not only let that woman torment Lin Zhaoyue's maid and cause her eight-month-old baby to die
7.6kReads7.7Score561Shelves
-
72
Imprisoned in the Possessive Emperor's Palm, Spoiled Like a Treasure 被偏执皇帝囚在掌心宠
[Completed] [Obsessive, unhinged emperor x frail, scheming princess] [Bad ending, tragic romance] “The heroine has always loved her childhood sweetheart + the hero takes her by force and compels her to love him + the second male lead protects and saves the heroine throughout.” Six years ago, at a palace banquet in the Great Wei dynasty, Yi An and Zuo Qiu Li both met Helan Lan, the Ningguo Princess and the most beautiful and revered woman in Great Wei. They fell in love with her at first sight. A
104Reads8.5Score—Shelves
-
73
The Tyrant Heard My Thoughts, and the Tragic Romance Plot Fell Apart 被暴君读心后，虐文剧情全崩了
[Tyrant’s mind-reading + gluttonous girl + devoted couple + sweet romance with a happy ending] Shen Qingqing wakes up to find she’s become the heroine of an old-school angst novel. Shen Qingshuang, the empress of a fallen kingdom, is taken by force and imprisoned in the harem by a tyrant. Cold and stubborn, she’d rather die than submit. After three hundred rounds of physical and emotional torment, she jumps from the city wall to die for her country, leaving the tyrant consumed by madness and reg
11.1kReads8.7Score1.7kShelves
Reader note
-
74
The Villainess Asks Every Day: Is the Dog Emperor Dead Yet? 恶女每日一问：狗皇帝今天死了没
For eight years in the palace, Xiangjun fought to get ahead and tried to please everyone, yet the palace’s noble masters still ground her down, used her, humiliated her, and cast her aside... Those nobles basked in all the wealth of the realm atop heaps of corpses and bones, yet mocked her for trying her hardest and not knowing her place. In the end, the child Xiangjun risked her life to bear called her enemy “Mother,” while Xiangjun was cut open alive so the baby could be taken from her. She di
99.8kReads9.6Score15kShelves
-
75
Splendid Glory: The Legitimate Daughter's Scheme to Rule the World 锦绣昭华：嫡女谋倾天下
In her previous life, Shen Lingwei was the most esteemed legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's household in the Great Zhou Dynasty. But she was infatuated with Prince Jing and trusted her half-sister, Shen Lingrou, only to see her entire family executed and herself burned alive. As she died, she watched her half-sister wearing her phoenix coronet and bridal robes, nestled in Prince Jing's arms. Each word was soaked in blood: "My Shen family served our country loyally, yet you two framed a
—Reads—Score—Shelves
-
76
I Transmigrated and Became the Beloved Bride of a Crippled Marquis 一朝穿越，替嫁残侯成团宠
[Historical transmigration + medical skills + marriage before love + two strong leads who dote on each other + suspense and court intrigue] Shen Qingci, a top surgeon, transmigrates into the body of a bride forced into a marriage swap. She becomes the new bride meant to bring good fortune to Xiao Yan, the blind and crippled Marquis of Dingbei. On their wedding night, she takes his pulse and immediately sees through it: “My lord, you’ve been poisoned. Someone wants to keep you in darkness forever
97Reads—Score—Shelves
Reader note
-
77
Coexisting with a Big Shot, I Became Unstoppable 与大佬共生，我强到飞起
One day, I woke up with a man in my head. It wasn't a hallucination or a split personality. He was the real deal, a top-tier boss: Lu Yunzhou. The ruthless business tycoon who ruled the corporate world was now nothing more than a ghost trapped in my mind. And so, things started looking like this: When someone gives me a hard time, he scoffs in my head: [Third file from the bottom left. Throw it in his face.] When someone frames me, he directs me remotely: [The recorder's in the right-hand drawe
78Reads—Score—Shelves
-
78
Quick Transmigration: The Second Personality 快穿第二人格
Female lead + dual personality + no saintly martyrdom + takes down scumbags regardless of gender or age + lighthearted and funny Synopsis: Jiang Yan, a female cultivator, was bored when she happened upon a System. She transmigrates through three thousand worlds, disguising herself as the original host's second personality to help them change their personalities and escape their tragic fates. She takes down scumbags, delivers face-slapping comeuppances, completes missions, and explores the myster
31Reads—Score—Shelves
-
79
Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷
[The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Hu Yitian and Zhang Jingyi] After keeping her talents hidden for fifteen years, Hua Zhi thought she could spend her life as a proper aristocratic young lady, living in peace. But when the Hua family’s fortunes collapse, she has no choice but to reveal her sharp edge and hold the storm-tossed household together. Being out in public becomes the norm, and so does galloping through the streets. When all else fails, she even carries a coffin on he
22kReads9.6Score4.6kShelves
Reader note