Political Intrigue, No Female Lead, and No Stories Confined to the Inner Household 权谋文，不要女主不要困在后宅的文
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In the Name of the Law: A New Chief Prosecutor Arrives 以法之名：检察院来了个新检察长
Crack down on organized crime and evil, expose those who shield them, and uphold fairness and justice as a prosecutor-in-chief, resolving one lingering grievance after another. In the Name of the Law, Article 20, The Long Night, The Knockout, In the Name of the People, The Wind Blows from Longxi, The Commando, The Great Magician, The River Flows On, Day and Night, and more to come.
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From the Start, a White Shirt and a Hundred-Billion-Yuan Crisis 开局白衬衫，力挽百亿损失
At fifteen, he enrolled at Imperial College London, majoring in business economics and strategy. Four years later, he graduated with both bachelor's and master's degrees. At nineteen, he returned to China to pursue a doctorate at Peking University. Four years later, he earned his doctorate, holding dual degrees in economics and law at the age of twenty-three. He put down his pen and joined the military, earning three first-class merits in just a few short years. After an accident forced Zhang Mi
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In the Name of the People: Succeeding Old Pei and Becoming a Political Legend 名义：接班老裴，成政界传奇
The Han University Faction can't exist? Then why can the Zhong family openly support Sha Ruijin in building the Sha Family Faction? Xiao Jin, tell me: do you admit your guilt or not? Zhao Ruilong, tell me: are you still so full of yourself? With Pei Yihong backing him, Zhou Zechuan sent not only Sha Ruijin, Zhao Ruilong, and the others to prison, but also the families behind them. Zhou Zechuan felt that neither the Han University Faction nor the Sha Family Faction needed to exist. He should be t
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I Only Wanted to Pass the Civil Service Exams, but They Forced Her to Seize the Throne 本想科举做官，非逼她谋朝篡位
[No romance + strong female lead + female empowerment + imperial examinations, no woman disguising herself as a man + political intrigue + born into a new life as a fetus + a touch of ensemble cast] Yu Zhao transmigrates. In her previous life, she grew up in an orphanage and worked herself to the bone until she graduated with a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree at age twenty. Just as she joined a research institute and was about to embark on a bright future, a stone suddenly struck her d
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She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反
[Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and
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The Playboy Won Me a Noble Title, and the Reborn Matriarch Went on a Killing Spree 纨绔为我夺诰命，重生主母杀疯了
[Signed for publication] [Clear-headed, independent true heiress x play-the-pig-to-eat-the-tiger fake wastrel] [Female-oriented fiction + heroine reborn + hero transmigrates + political intrigue] After more than ten years as the wife of the Ningyuan Marquis's heir, managing the household and dutifully serving her parents-in-law, Shen Tangning believed she had done nothing wrong. Not until the usually distant heir began an affair with her half sister, now married to his younger brother, and they
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Keep All That Male Beauty Away! I Only Want the Throne! 男色通通闪开，本宫只想要登基！
[Reborn + strong female lead + true and false princesses + woman ascends the throne + political intrigue] Would being the founding emperor’s only daughter, surrounded by handsome men, be amazing? Lan Zhaoyu says it’s not amazing at all! All she wants is to be a sovereign with no spouse, in the literal sense: an unmarried empress! Her father handpicked legitimate sons from distinguished noble families, all accomplished in both civil and military arts, and adopted them as his sons. They all fawned
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Her Clan Falls into Ruin, but She Turns Her Fate Around Through the Imperial Exams! 全族落魄，她靠科举逆天改命！
[Heroine Does Not Disguise Herself as a Man | Civil Service Exams and Government Career | A Name in the History Books | A Strong Heroine Who Grows] In her previous life, Jiang Ruchu was a fallen noblewoman. Her father was faithless, her mother weak. Carrying a keepsake, she married into the prominent local Huo family to repay a debt of gratitude. When her husband entered school, Jiang Ruchu quietly supported him through his studies... She kept a low profile and fulfilled her duties, hoping only
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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
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Damn! Why Is the Crown Princess Surrounded by Suitors Everywhere? 可恶！怎么到处都是长公主的鱼！
[Short drama of the same name] [The Princess's World of Flowers] Now streaming [Content warning: The female lead is not exclusive, but all the men are, so read with caution] [Schrodinger's playgirl × a whole lot of men] [Lighthearted, not a serious historical drama] [Original title]: Too Many Men Are Such a Hassle. Who Should I Spoil? Wen Yu transmigrates into the Great Sheng Dynasty as its beautiful, useless, brainless eldest princess. After learning that the original owner drowned by accident
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The Emperor Has No Heirs? I’m So Fertile I Rule the Imperial Harem 陛下无嗣？我好孕连连独霸后宫
[The short drama adapted from this novel, Your Majesty, Don't Love Me Too Much! I'll Win the Harem's Favor with My Fertility, is now available.] [The animated drama adapted from this novel, Darling, Enter My Heart, is now available.] [The leads are not faithful to each other. He becomes devoted to her later + The heroine is stunningly beautiful and clear-eyed, and aims to become an empress + Fertility and childbirth + Multiple babies in one pregnancy + Intelligent palace intrigue + Political man
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Before I Knew It, His Majesty Was Helping Me Fight My Household Battles 一不小心，陛下他下场帮我宅斗了
An accident causes Cui Lingyao and the reigning emperor, Pei Jie, to swap souls. On the fifteenth of every month, each must spend a day in the other's body. One side is the chaotic Earl's residence, with a reborn younger cousin, an aunt harboring dark intentions, an uncle shrouded in secrets, and a grandmother who loves to smooth things over. The other is the imperial court, where the empress dowager holds power, Prince Xin is ambitious, the emperor's personal attendant has already defected, an
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After the Cannon-Fodder Sister-in-Law Is Reborn, the Lucky Female Lead Suffers 炮灰大嫂重生后，锦鲤女主受难了
[Period Setting + Reborn Revenge + Sweet Romance + Satisfying Read + Building a Fortune + Everyday Life] Only when she was dying did Bai Xiuxiu discover that the world she lived in was actually a period novel about a lucky heroine! In the book, she was the lucky heroine's shrewish older sister-in-law. She was mean, lazy, greedy, and did every kind of evil! After the heroine married into the family, Bai Xiuxiu made life difficult for her at every turn. Because she bullied the lucky heroine, she “
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The Bone in the Green Satchel 青囊骨
At the Mid-Autumn banquet, nine-year-old Yu Guiwan watched her entire family be slaughtered. Beneath a blood-red moon, she fell from a cliff and was left on the brink of death, but the poison physician Wen Jiuzhen saved her. After ten years in hiding, she returns, reborn in fire. The orphan of the past is now the head of the Qingnang Sect, with medical skills that astonish the world. With golden needles, she heals the sick; with poison, she takes lives and pierces hearts. The wealthy merchant S
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After the Confiscation and Exile, Seven Brothers-in-Law Cling to Their Widowed Sister-in-Law 抄家流放，七个小叔紧抱寡嫂大腿
Completed [1v1 + Transmigrate into a Book + Exile + Fleeing Famine + Strong Female Lead + Yandere + Beloved by All + Political Intrigue] The assassin Shen Yanqi died on a mission and transmigrated into a novel as a foolish daughter of the richest family in the capital, brought in to bring good luck to the eldest son of the Bai family. She became a widow on the very day she arrived. Why is this different from the book?! The male lead is dead! What am I supposed to do now?! Just as the widowed sis
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Shock! Reborn on the Eve of My Family's Execution, I Say Let's Rebel 惊！重生回满门抄斩前夜，造反吧
[Rebirth + feel-good story with a powerful heroine + family and country + political intrigue] A cool-headed, cunning heroine who plans several moves ahead + a brilliant, devoted yet restrained male lead who serves as a high-ranking official at the Court of Judicial Review In her previous life, the entire Ning family, loyal to the throne for generations, was slaughtered. To avenge them, Ning Zhiwei led an army of a hundred thousand to marry Su Mingjin, helping him with all her might as he rebelle
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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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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
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The Hidden Luan 藏鸾
[One-on-One Romance + Both Pure + Marriage Before Love + Love Grows Over Time + Childhood Acquaintances] [Synopsis] “If you hate me, then take my life as payment.” Xiao Heng, Prince of Jin of Great Liang, is cold-blooded and ruthless, with countless military victories to his name. Yet he has secretly loved the Crown Princess, Chu Minglan, for ten years. The Prime Minister’s legitimate daughter, Shen Zhinan, is gentle and well-mannered. But by imperial decree, she becomes the wife he never wan
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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
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A Transmigrator with a System? Of Course I’ll Become Empress 穿越者，有系统，那肯定当女帝啊
[Feel-good revenge + transmigration + System + medicine + nation-building + conquering a chaotic age + empress + cheat powers] Medical student Liu Yi transmigrates into a war-torn age. The world is in chaos, the imperial court has fallen, and ordinary people can barely survive. But she brought along her all-purpose doctor System. System: “I can give you medical equipment.” System: “I can give you medical books.” System: “I can give you an entire modern hospital.” System: “Your goal is to becom
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Oh No! I Got Exposed for Stealing Zhu Qizhen's Throne 完蛋！我抢朱祁镇皇位被曝光了
[Empress + Sky Screen + Empowering Female-Led Story] After transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty, she became Zhu Xingyi, the daughter of Hu Shanxiang, the deposed empress. She had no special golden finger from transmigrating, but fortunately, in her previous life she had been a top-level special agent, skilled in everything. She kept a low profile while secretly building an army. When the Tumu Crisis erupted, Zhu Xingyi's strength, concealed for years, was finally revealed, stunning the entire worl
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The Enchanting Demon Minister: Your Majesty, Please Behave 妖臣撩人：皇上请您自重
[Woman disguised as a man] In her previous life, she suffered at the hands of a scumbag, watched her whole family drown in blood, and was literally angered to death. Reborn into this life as the capital's number-one wastrel, she sees all of Chang'an's splendor in a single day. Let the scumbags and shameless women come at her. If she can't make them cry, she loses. Her wicked stepmother and slutty stepsister? They can go find somewhere else to bother people. Fame, fortune, and a crowd of princes
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The Lady of the Household Flips the Table: No Taking On His Mess, Just Spoiling Her Husband and Making a Comeback 妻主掀桌拒接盘，宠夫逆袭两手抓
[Female-Dominant World + Underdog Reversal + Secret Identities + Devoted Love + One-on-One, Both Pure] [Ruthless, taciturn, career-minded transmigrator × aloof, two-faced superstar] After waking up, she discovers she’s transmigrated into the role of the heroine’s designated cuckold in a cliché female-dominant romance novel. She’s spent twenty years cleaning up after the heroine, only to end up with the full “crematorium” treatment. Gu Liang falls into an unsettling silence. The novel’s tags clea
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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 Three-Year-Old Princess, Doted on by All 团宠公主三岁半
Gu Hui, heir to a family of renowned acupuncturists, accidentally transmigrated as a tiny princess and discovered that she could read people’s minds. Her father was the emperor, and her mother was a scheming imperial consort. Using her superpower, she became the apple of the emperor’s eye, the crown prince’s darling, and a thorn in the side of countless people. Gu Hui: “I want to rule the world, with no one daring to mess with me. I love seeing them hate me but be powerless to do anything about
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The Marquis's Widow Raised a Household of Geniuses 侯夫人守寡，却养出满门天骄
Tang Shuyi transmigrated into the Great Qian dynasty, becoming the wife of the Marquis of Yongning. She was rich, powerful, and high-status, with no parents-in-law and a dead husband: she had it better than almost anyone else who had transmigrated. Just as she was about to enjoy a comfortable life as a wealthy noblewoman, she discovered that she had transmigrated into a book, and was its biggest villain. She wasn’t just rich, powerful, and high-status. She also had three unruly children. The eld
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The Moon Over Guanshan Shines Bright, Too 关山月也明
Reborn, she returns to a family in exile, outsmarts a crisis, and shines with dazzling brilliance. Moonlight, silver as frost, streamed into a bedroom from twenty years ago. Tan Yue jolted awake from a nightmare that chilled her to the bone. She had returned to the night before the Tan family’s downfall in the Spring Examination leak scandal, carrying the agonizing memories of ten years of confinement, losing her child, and being separated from her loved ones in her previous life. Back then, her
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Bringing the Phoenix Home 引凤归
The physical book is available on all major platforms. Formerly titled Riding the Phoenix. [Reborn + Powerful Female Lead and Male Lead + Nation and World + Political Schemes] Before the age of seventeen, Shen Yu was the legitimate daughter of a military family who could wield a blade and charge into battle. After seventeen, she became the frail wife of Jiang Manor's Vice Minister Jiang. Her father and brothers died in battle, and the entire Shen family was honored for their loyalty. Bearing
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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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Spring Ripples 折春漪
Luo Ning took a blade meant for the Empress Dowager and suffered severe injuries, trading her life for her family's noble title. She went south to recuperate for three years, but when she returned, she discovered that her maternal cousin had taken over her courtyard. Her cousin had even replaced her in every aspect. Luo Ning's parents and elder brother adored her, her grandmother favored her, and even Luo Ning's childhood sweetheart secretly admired her, saying that she surpassed Luo Ning in eve
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The Fifth Princess Consort of the Prince of Han 第五任寒王妃
On his fifth marriage, he ended up marrying a force of nature: The brutal prince grudgingly welcomes his fifth princess consort, unaware that this woman, who plays the pig to eat the tiger, harbors a secret powerful enough to upend his world. Starting with the tests they put each other through on their wedding night, the two maneuver at every turn, until they are caught in a tangled web of love and hate.
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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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I Run a Matchmaking Corner in the Prince's Palace, and the Prince Himself Takes Charge 我在王府开相亲角，王爷他亲自坐镇
I Opened a Matchmaking Corner at the Prince's Mansion, and the Prince Himself Took Charge
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Prince, You Got the Wrong Sacrifice 王爷，你的祭品，错了
Prince, you got the wrong sacrifice.
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After I Was Reborn, My Powerful Ex-Husband Panicked 重生后，权臣前夫他急了
After Being Reborn, My Powerful Ex-Husband Is Panicking
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After I Accused My Husband of Treason in the Golden Hall 金銮殿上，我告发夫君通敌后
After I Accused My Husband of Treason in the Golden Throne Hall
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Chief Grand Secretary Lu Heng: A Madman Who Loves Me Through a Bad Ending 首辅陆珩：一个用BE剧本爱我的疯批
Chief Grand Secretary Lu Heng: A lunatic who loves me while following a bad ending script
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The Disfigured Minister’s Wife Is Reborn 毁容的尚书夫人她重生了
Lin Hanshuang was reborn, back to the age of fourteen. A devastating fire that year left her disfigured and changed the course of her life forever. Everyone lamented, “What a fine young lady from a respectable family. Her life is over!” Her sisters sneered, “If I were you, I’d hang myself. Better than living when no one will have you and making people sick just to look at you!” Her fiancé came to break off their engagement, making a cutting remark: “Miss Lin is blessed with extraordinary talent.
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A Beauty Hidden Deep in the Palace 深宫藏娇
Pei Shiyuan had always thought that, as a concubine-born daughter, she thrived at her family home because she knew a little tea ceremony and all she had to do was flatter her father, the head of the household. She had been quite pleased with herself about it, right up until she entered the Eighth Prince’s household. The Eighth Prince’s mother, the Noble Consort, was so favored that the Empress had no room to stand. His maternal family wielded so much power that the court officials could barely b
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Can You Believe It? The Empress Wrote a Hundred Palace Rules 谁懂啊，娘娘写了一百条宫规
[Palace Intrigue + Ancient-Era Heroine + Reborn Supporting Female Character + Transmigrated Supporting Female Character + Everyone Is Clever + Clear-Eyed Heroine] From ordinary palace candidate to empress. Everyone believes the emperor is devoted to Ning Wanyin. Only Ning Wanyin knows how treacherous and perilous the journey has been. She has survived every step through sheer caution. Lady Tang, reborn: “She killed me in my last life. This time, of course I’ll… make her my friend! Do I really th
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The Emperor Has No Heart, Yet His Cool and Elegant Noble Consort Has Her Ways 帝本无心，怎奈清冷贵妃手段高
[Cool, seductive fox beauty vs. a carefree, womanizing emperor] [The heroine is the true daughter, driven by revenge and ambition: a scheming beauty, sweet on the outside but ruthless within, and far from virtuous. This is an unconventional palace-intrigue story focused on winning hearts. The hero is not chaste. Later, he desperately tries to win her back. The overall tone is sweet, and the romance becomes one-on-one in the latter half.] Until the age of five, Changyu Jiao was the legitimate da
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My Consort Took a Concubine, So I Cast Him Off; He Rebelled, So I Became Emperor 驸马纳妾我休弃，驸马造反我称帝
[Signed for publication] [A noblewoman and a transmigrated woman join forces to contend for the throne. Strong female lead, ensemble cast, political intrigue, no romance] Yuan Xuan was born to be a pawn. For the sake of the realm, she lived as a man and served as crown prince for over a decade. When her younger brother was born, Yuan Xuan returned to living as a woman and became a discarded pawn. Abandoned by everyone, she had no one left who didn’t want her dead. Less than a year into her marri
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My Beloved, Through Every Dawn and Dusk 卿是朝朝暮暮
Shen Yunshu studied archaeology and had been working for just two years. She loved history, and her favorite dynasty was the Rong Dynasty. A few days ago, she had read an unofficial history of the Rong Dynasty's royal family. Little did she expect that after falling asleep, she would wake up in the Rong Dynasty, sent there by the heavens, as Shen Yunshu, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family of Prince Zhenbei's residence. She had transmigrated to her favorite dynasty and become a descendant
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The Princess Goes on a Killing Spree Every Day! 公主她每天都在嘎嘎乱杀！
[Female-led power fantasy + ruthless, unhinged heroine + an extreme “I’d rather betray others than let them betray me” mentality] Xuan Mingyao was reborn at the age of seven, back before anything had happened. Though she was the empress’s legitimate daughter, a princess treated like royalty, her younger brother, the crown prince, was about to die of illness. Her mother would soon be consumed by worry, grow estranged from the emperor, and eventually be deposed in the witchcraft scandal. Overnight
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The Night My Legitimate Son Was Burned, the Regent Slaughtered My Entire Household for Me 火焚嫡子那夜摄政王为我屠满门
[Scheming heroine + power struggles + palace and household intrigue + strong female lead + prince + revenge and cathartic payback + mutual healing] In her previous life, Xie Deyin was sent by her husband, the Marquis of Pingyang, to the bed of a powerful regent to curry favor with him. She bore a son, only for her husband and his favored concubine to murder the child. Reborn, Xie Deyin vows to rise to the pinnacle of power, crush the scumbag and expose the fake saintess. She deliberately approac
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Eunuch Qiansui, the Princess Consort Is Expecting Again 千岁，王妃又有喜了
[Sweet romance + obsessive love + political intrigue + a touch of ensemble cast, not a traditional strong-female-lead story] The beloved little princess of the Duke Who Protects the Nation's family is asked by a scumbag to become his concubine. In a fit of anger, Xie Yunning breaks off the engagement and sets her sights on the scumbag's nemesis, the immensely powerful Ninth Eunuch. Her new husband is rich, handsome, and all-powerful. He's also a eunuch. She thinks that from now on, she'll have w
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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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The Golden Palace Locks Away the Spring Breeze 金阙锁春风
Her entire family perished, she was left dependent on others, the dynasty fell, and she married and divorced. In just eighteen years, Yu Zheng has endured things most people never face in a lifetime. A noblewoman of the former dynasty, all she wants now is to stay alive. She plans to enter the palace as a maid, then use her literacy to earn a post as a court official and support herself. She never imagined that the new emperor would send her to the Fourth Prince’s residence as a gesture of goodw
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