Any Good Historical Romance? I’m Out of Books to Read 有没有好看的古言 孩子书荒了
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Warm Light at the Alley Corner: The Story of a Bowl of Wontons 巷口灯暖：一碗馄饨的时光故事
The first time Lin Zhan met Shen Zhao, the streetlamp at the alley entrance was casting a dim yellow glow. He was crouched by the back door of Zhan's Wonton Shop, pinching half a piece of cold meat filling between his fingers. Three scrawny strays were crouched in front of him. “You can't feed them that. It has salt.” She walked over with freshly cooked chicken breast. The porcelain bowl made a soft clink as she set it on the flagstones. Shen Zhao looked up, his eyelashes still dusted with soot
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The Husky and His White Cat Shizun 二哈和他的白猫师尊
[The audiobook adaptation of the same name, starring Gu Jiangshan and Sanshi, is complete. Tune in and give it a listen!] Mo Ran thought becoming Chu Wanning's disciple had been a mistake. His master was far too much like a cat, while he was like a silly dog wagging its tail and fawning over him. Dogs and cats can't reproduce together, and the silly dog hadn't wanted to reach out his fluffy paws toward that cat in the first place. He'd always thought dogs should be with dogs, like his senior bro
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She Held a Reunion Feast, and the Entire Court Showed Up? 她办个同窗宴，满朝文武都来了？
[Group transmigration + ensemble cast + no System + imperial examinations + everyday academy life in the early story + political intrigue in the middle and later story] (Everyone is highly intelligent and career-driven; the heroine has no romance) An earthquake sent Zhu Lan and her entire class of top students into a book, where they became a notorious group of failures! How could they turn things around? Oh, apparently all they had to do was pass the highest-level imperial exam. What a relief!
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Reborn on My Wedding Night, the Sickly Prince Regent Warms My Feet 重生新婚夜，病娇摄政王给我暖脚
[Reborn + sweet romance + obsessive love + mutual devotion + secret identities, one couple] Nan Xi, the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, was a fool in her past life. She fell for a treacherous scumbag who was handsome on the outside but full of sinister schemes within, and ended up abandoned by everyone, dying miserably at the hands of him and his mistress. Given a second life, she gets her brains back! Looking at the powerful, handsome regent by her side, she cannot help questioning h
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A Handbook of Knowledge for Transmigrating to Ancient Times 穿越古代知识储备手册
A Handbook of Knowledge for Transmigrating to Ancient Times
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Cold Fragrance Reflects a Benevolent Heart 寒香映仁心
Here is a carefully polished, hundred-character story blurb highlighting the central conflict and an uplifting conclusion: A Tale of Cold Fragrance: Synopsis (100 characters) She is a lowly concubine-born daughter abandoned on a rainy night, and a transmigrator with peerless medical skills. With a silver needle, she can decide life and death; with a bowl of medicine, she can discern loyalty from treachery. She breaks through the trials of household intrigue, steps forward when plague runs
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Reborn, the Prince Spoils Me to the Heavens 重生后，王爷宠我上天
After I Was Reborn, the Prince Doted on Me to the Heavens
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Ning'an Lane 宁安巷
Ning'an Lane
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After I Was Reborn, My Late Husband and Ex-Husband Started Fighting 重生后，亡夫与前夫打起来了
[Rebirth, a scheming male lead, ruthless pursuit, a love triangle, and rekindled love after a breakup] [A foolish beauty in her past life and not much smarter in this one VS a reserved, self-disciplined beauty on a lofty pedestal VS a hedonistic young lord who takes what he wants] In her past life, Gan Caier managed to squander a winning hand through her own sheer incompetence. In the end, she died alone in the snow on New Year’s Eve. She couldn’t blame anyone else, but she still died with regre
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After All These Years, I Still Can’t Forget 这么多年，我还是忘不了
An original Tomato novel featuring two female leads, youthful romance, modern love, and a mutual journey toward each other. Jiang Xiaotian wants to escape her birth family, while Feng Tiantian wants to give hers a better life. Neither gets what she wants. As children, the two girls felt a deep kinship. As adults, they went their separate ways to survive. After each endured her own hardships, they finally found their way to each other, becoming an indispensable part of one another's lives.
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I Clapped Back at My Ex Online, Then Got Hounded by His Boss 在线怼前男友却被他顶头上司缠上
Original Tomato novel | CEO romance | Modern romance | Sweet love | Scheming hero | Both leads are each other's first | Pursuing his wife [The male lead steals the heroine from the second male lead / The second male lead faces a long road to winning her back; both leads are each other's first] [Sweet-faced but secretly wicked little “goddess” VS cold, sly, and flirtatious heir] In public, Tang Luyan is a sweet-smiling investment banking star known as the “goddess,” striding through life with con
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I Have a Lover in My Hometown 我在故乡有情人
They are all ordinary people. Their language is the sort that accompanies everyday actions in real life: unconsciously, naturally, and simply, they speak of the things they intend to do and set about doing on the surface. They cannot reveal their inner essence or prove they have the right to act. Nor can they claim that the tragedy they belong to is free from the constraints of chance and the peculiarities of individual personalities. And they are even less able to reflect deeply and express the
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A Western-Obsessed Me Meets a You Born and Raised Here 崇洋媚外的我遇上土生土长的你
From worshipping all things foreign to protecting our culture, from conflict and division to integration and coexistence, this story seeks to explore how we can rediscover the roots of our cultural confidence in an era of globalization. Just as tea and coffee can share the same morning, tradition and modernity will eventually find a balance.
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It’s Not Like I Want to Be Your Girlfriend 我可不是想当你女友
A head-on collision between two worldviews and two ideas of what makes life valuable. Every time she refuses him, she is saying: “Your money can't buy me.” “Your power can't control me.” “Your world can't tempt me.”
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Seventeen, How Are You? 十七岁，你好吗？
How are you, seventeen?
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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 Tyrant Can Read Minds, but the Little One’s Secret Identity Is Safe 暴君他有读心术，奶团马甲藏不住
Before the age of three, Jiang Yu was just an ordinary, unloved princess. Her father was a tyrant, her mother was a slacker, and after the imperial consort backed her into a corner, she had no choice but to seek help from her scumbag father. But her father, who had swept across the six realms and looked down on the world, was known by all as a tyrant. No one knew that the tyrant could read minds. Tyrant: “She approaches me. She must have ulterior motives.” Jiang Yu lazily rolled over. “Father, t
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The Little Princess Saves Her Imperial Father with Her Inner Voice 小公主心声拯救父皇
[Complete] [Mind-Reading + Beloved by All + Alternate History + System + Sweet Romance + Adorable Baby + Underdog's Rise + Transmigrate into a Book] (Mind-reading only works when affection for the heroine reaches the required level. The threshold rises as she grows older, and eventually requires maximum affection.) Bei Jingchu transmigrates into a book and gets bound to a governance System. Before she can even start celebrating, she discovers she's been reborn as the princess switched at birth.
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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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After Overhearing the Mad Little Emperor's Thoughts, the Courtiers Went Berserk 偷听疯批小皇帝心声后群臣杀疯了
[Court Officials Can Hear Her Thoughts + Dual Powers + No Romance] Lu Qing, a powerful wielder of two abilities in the apocalypse, transmigrated into a book. She became the deranged young emperor who loses her kingdom in a novel. The young emperor was cowardly and useless, gloomy and cruel, and even a woman disguised as a man! At court, ministers held the reins of power; beyond the borders, neighboring kingdoms watched like hungry wolves. Disasters struck one after another, and the people were l
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The Empress Transmigrates: Conquering the World in a Chaotic Age 女帝穿越，她在乱世逐鹿天下
No romance + strong female lead + powerful heroine + light ensemble cast + infrastructure building + satisfying read + transmigration Yun Zhi was a princess who grew up in the Cold Palace. In the Cold Palace, you either erupt out of silence or perish in it. To survive, she used every means at her disposal, killed her father and brother, and took the throne everyone wanted. But after only a few years on the throne, she died of illness. When she opened her eyes again, she was Yun Zhi, the newborn
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I Just Want to Destroy the Sect, So How Did I Become a God Against All Odds? 我只想毁灭宗门，咋逆天成神了
Reborn into the number one sect under heaven: it should have been a perfect start. But Chu Xinghe discovered that his cultivation path was a little unusual. Could he become invincible under heaven just by destroying his own sect? Building the number one sect under heaven wasn’t easy, but surely destroying it wouldn’t be hard? Chu Xinghe soon discovered that it really wasn’t easy. He racked his brains trying to bring down his own sect, but why did every attempt only make it stronger? Countless ye
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I Get Stronger by Eating Ghosts 我，吃鬼就变强
Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca
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The World’s Morals Have Regressed by Three Hundred Years. What’s That to Me? 天下道德倒退三百年，关我什么事
[Search Tomato to watch the short drama: The Third Greatest Stratagem of All Time] Gao Yang transmigrated to the Great Qian Dynasty just as the Empress ascended the throne and began recruiting talent from across the land. So he volunteered himself as a poison strategist! The Empress: “Suppose you personally wiped out your enemy's entire family. As you looked at the bodies scattered everywhere, you suddenly realized there was still a child in the house. What would you do?” Gao Yang: “I'd say, ‘Re
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A Short-Lived Forbidden Spell Caster? I Have an Undying Body 禁咒师短命？我拥有不死之身
Ye Lin transmigrates to a world overrun by demons and monsters, where he gains an immortal body. Because changing jobs in this world costs a fortune, he exploits a bug and sells his own organs to scrape together enough money to take part in the job-change ceremony. On the day of the ceremony, he becomes an SSS-rank Forbidden Spellcaster, but everyone around him mocks him. That's because SSS-rank Forbidden Spellcasters have to sacrifice their lifespan or their flesh to cast spells, so they're usu
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Three Kingdoms: Yuan Shao's Rebellious Son Smashes the Imperial Seal from the Start 三国：袁家逆子，开局摔玉玺
He transmigrates to the end of the Han dynasty and becomes Yuan Yao, son of Yuan Gonglu, a dead man walking in his own coffin. With a father who’s dead set on rebelling and becoming emperor, Yuan Yao immediately sees no future for himself. If he wants to survive, he must stop his father, Yuan Shu, from repeating history. He’ll have to oppose him at every turn. “Sun Ce wants to trade the Imperial Seal for Father’s elite troops? I’ll smash the seal myself and see how he plans to make that trade!”
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The Spoiled Young Heir 纨绔世子
[New book release: The Rebellious Son Is Invincible, the final installment of the Empire Trilogy] Guan Ning transmigrates, hoping to live a carefree life of wine, women, and luxury as a young prince. Instead, he becomes a prince consort whose engagement has been broken off. Rumor has it that no dynasty can last more than 300 years. The Great Kang Dynasty is at that very threshold: a golden age is in turmoil, loyal ministers are being persecuted, and an age of chaos is about to begin. He will top
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I Took My Brother's Place as Deputy Chief of the Dali Court, Leaving Everyone Stunned 顶替哥哥为大理寺少卿，惊呆众人
Chen Zhao transmigrates into an ancient society. With his older brother, Chen Jun, missing for three months, Chen Zhao has no choice but to take his place as a junior minister at the Court of Judicial Review. His formidable modern investigative techniques leave everyone stunned. At the same time, he discovers that his brother’s disappearance is part of a massive conspiracy, and he too is drawn into the maelstrom of a power struggle.
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The Poisonous Strategist: From the Start, I Advise the Empress to Blow Herself Up 毒士：开局为女帝献计，请陛下自爆
Shen Lang accidentally transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation, just as the Empress forcefully ascends the throne and gathers talented people from across the realm. So he volunteers himself as a ruthless strategist! Empress: “When the Haoyue Divine Kingdom demands the Tianshan ore vein from our Great Qin, how do you propose we deal with them?” Shen Lang: “Your Majesty could blow yourself up and take the Haoyue Divine Kingdom with you!” Empress: “…” Empress: “The young people of Great Qi
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Our Family Has Been Bandits for Generations, and You Went and Passed the Top Scholar Exam 咱家世代贼寇，你小子考上状元了
The short drama adaptation, Our Family Has Been Bandits for Generations, and You Went and Passed the Imperial Exams, premieres on November 21 at 9:00. Reservations are open now! Qin Yu transmigrated to ancient times. His father was the chief of Blackwind Stronghold, with wanted posters plastered all over the city gates. His mother was the Holy Maiden of the Black Lotus Sect, a notorious female fiend in the martial world. His grandfather had once attempted a rebellion... His grandmother was a pri
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Can’t This Entire Sect Scrounge Up a Single Decent Person? 全宗上下，拼不出一个好人？
[System + invincible + the Myriad Worlds + fiercely protective + sect fiercely protective + decisive and ruthless + master schemer] Chu Luo, a disciple of the Forbidden Sect, has maxed out his comprehension and mastered a whole arsenal of forbidden techniques. But an accident leads him into the sect’s forbidden grounds. Just as he is about to be expelled for breaking the rules, his master, who has been in seclusion for ages, breaks through to the Great Emperor realm and emerges in time! Master:
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After Maxing Out the Nine Suns Divine Skill, I Became a Living Forbidden Spell 九阳神功满级后，我成了人形禁咒
[Ghosts’ Worst Nightmare] [Ghost King Slayer] [Demon Meat Grinder] [Human-Shaped Forbidden Spell] Su Mo transmigrates to an era where the supernatural has returned, and from the start receives a love letter written by a female ghost! It’s unexpected, touching, and potentially deadly! Luckily, his Super Enhancement System awakens. A knockoff Nine Suns Divine Art? Enhance it! Nine Suns Devouring Heaven Art! Turn your body into a furnace, condense your blood and qi into a sun, and refine the evil g
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Get in the Way of the Underworld's Cases, and I'll Even Hook the Buddha, I Said 阻碍地府办案，如来也勾，我说的
After dying, Su Fan transmigrates into the body of a spirit in the Three Realms and becomes a soul-reaping ghost constable in the Underworld. From then on, the whole culture of the Underworld changes. “First of all, let me make this clear: I’m not the one who corrupted the culture of the Underworld. Ghost constables are supposed to reap souls. I’m just doing my job.” “If you can’t keep up with me, don’t blame me for changing the culture.” With that, Su Fan walks out through the Gate of Hell, car
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The Outcast: Fusing with Kizaru, the King of Slacking at Anywhere Door 一人：融合黄猿，哪都通摆烂之王
After transmigrating into The Outcast, Jiang Bailan gained Admiral Kizaru’s template. As long as he enjoyed himself, he could earn Joy Points. And so he began living a carefree, unambitious life. Clocking out on time? Taking it easy and having fun? Staying out all night? Enjoying things without paying? [Ding! The Host is feeling happy in body and mind. Joy Points increased. Congratulations, Host, you have unlocked the Glint-Glint Fruit.] [Ding! The Host is feeling happy in body and mind. Joy Poi
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Invincibility Begins with Breaking Through Defenses 无敌从破防开始
Zhang Qingfeng, bedridden with a terminal illness, accidentally transmigrates to another world and becomes the grandson of Zhang Batian, one of the four greatest experts on the Tianyuan Continent. He begins a life of idleness, laziness, freeloading, and causing trouble: the life of a super spoiled young master. After activating an unknown System, he can become an unrivaled expert by running his mouth and making people lose their cool.
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Senior Brother, You’re Far Too Cunning 大师兄你真太阴险了
Wasn’t he supposed to be devious and deceitful, vile and shameless, selfish and unscrupulous, a scoundrel through and through, two-faced and faithless, a swindler and a cheat, and the greatest menace in the world? Then why was golden merit shining from him? This book is also known as "The Immortal King Wants Me Dead by Three, So I’ll Break Into His House at Two" and "No One Is More Devious Than He Is".
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I Told You to Make a Pact with a Ghost, but You Made One with Zhong Kui? 让你契约鬼，你契约钟馗？
[A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af
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The Outcast: A Calamity for the Outcast World, This Guy Is Dangerously Twisted 一人：异人圈噩耗，这人邪的发邪
[The Outcast + Op-Op Fruit + Outsourced Doctor for Quanxing + Making Up for Regrets] Bai Yuan transmigrates into the world of The Outcast. After being rescued by Xia Liuqing, he unexpectedly awakens a golden finger and merges with Law, the Op-Op Fruit user from One Piece. [Successfully complete a high-difficulty operation. ROOM upgraded to Lv. 5] [The Host fights Xiao Zizai and wins. Template fusion increases...] [Congratulations, Host! You have dissected the body of an important figure and
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The Outcast: Old Celestial Master, Is Your Disciple the King of Hell?! 一人：老天师！你徒弟是阎王？！
[The Outcast crossover + netherworld skills + lighthearted comedy + beloved by the Celestial Master Mansion + decisive and ruthless] Zhang Zhengdao transmigrates into The Outcast universe and joins an orthodox sect, the Celestial Master Mansion of Mount Longhu. Just as he plans to devote himself to cultivation and become a leading figure among the orthodox practitioners, he awakens the [Nethergod System]. From then on, every art he learns is transformed into a netherworld art! Other people’s Gol
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The Gluttonous Lady (3-Volume Set) 饕餮娘子（全三册）
In the late Ming dynasty, on Liuqing Street in the ancient city of Jiangcheng, the alluring proprietress Tao Sanniang is a Taotie in human form. Her mysterious restaurant, Huanxiang Hall, can cook every delicacy people could ever desire. The girl Tao Yue'er works as a kitchen hand at Huanxiang Hall. By chance, she stumbles upon the secrets behind its delicacies: Immortal Vinegar is brewed from the obsession of two ill-fated lovers, one living and one dead; Rose Cakes are the deliberate revenge o
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The Wicked Supporting Lady Is Doomed to Live as a Widow? Brother-in-Law, I’m Scared 恶毒女配守活寡？夫兄，人家好怕
[Elder Brother Steals Younger Brother’s Wife + Deliberate Seduction] (Black-hearted scheming villainess ✖️ abstinent, cold-hearted junior tutor) In her previous life, Pei Jingxu remained a widow for three years for her husband, Rong Xuanzhou, who had died in battle. But then he returned to the capital with Bai Shutong, the widow of his comrade-in-arms, and her two children. The Rong family elders said nothing, only urging Pei to be virtuous and magnanimous. The widow was peerlessly beautiful. No
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Becoming Empress of the Realm by Pretending to Be the Chancellor's Widowed Sister-in-Law 母仪天下，从冒充丞相寡嫂开始
[Revenge + Face-Slapping the Scum + Lighthearted + Sweet Romance] When you’re out in the world, you can choose your own identity. To infiltrate high society and avenge the massacre of her sister’s family, Feng Qingsui decides to pose as the distant cousin of a prestigious household. But just as she’s about to seek their help, the household she picked is raided by the Imperial Guards. She tries another family. Raided. Then another. Raided again. At her wit’s end, she knocks on the door of the “Pr
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Male Leads, Get a Grip! I’m Really Just the Villainess! 男主们都清醒点！我真的只是恶毒女配啊！
Chi Xining should have been enjoying a comfortable retirement, but she unfortunately transmigrates into a cannon-fodder female character who got merged with another person because they share the same name! In one stroke of bad luck, she ends up with three doomed identities and manages to offend the male leads of three different books. Chi Xining clutches her secret identities close, trembling as she tries to get herself written out of the story. But the more she tries, the farther she gets from
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Are All My Villain Disciples Simps? This Lazy Master Is Just Here to Have Fun 反派弟子全舔狗？摆烂师尊浪浪浪
[Multiple male leads + lighthearted comedy + master and disciples + nontraditional cultivation + one heroine and multiple male leads competing for her + everyone falls for her] Qin Ran was merely complaining that the heroine wouldn't take all the handsome men when she transmigrated into the story as the villainous master of four villainous disciples, a woman disguised as a man! When her four disciples were still weak, she tortured them mercilessly. The villains endured their humiliation, waiting
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Who Says She's a Villainess? She's Clearly the Moonlight in Everyone's Heart 谁说她恶女，明明是皎皎白月光
(Print edition goes on sale at 7 p.m. on September 19 / Several short animated adaptations are now streaming) [Wicked Villainess Transmigrates into a Book + Total Control + “Training Dogs” Romance + Male Rivals in a Shura Field + Exes Begging for Her Back + Face-Slapping and Scumbag Punishment] [The heroine is a true villainess: a stunning, calculating temptress who never hesitates to manipulate others] Jiang Chuji, the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, was an ill-fated girl sent to a t
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The Great Yu's Master Strategist 大渝筹算师
[Strong female lead + revenge on scumbags + lighthearted + pure romance + playing the fool to catch the tiger + happy ending] Good news: Her betrothed came first in the provincial exams and earned the title of Jieyuan. Bad news: Her betrothed, now a Jieyuan, wanted to break off the engagement without losing face, so he schemed against his fiancée, who came from a merchant family. Fine. If you want to break things off with dignity by scheming against someone, then neither of us is going to have a
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From the Start, Wed to a Corpse: The Diviner Becomes the Capital’s Beloved 开局替嫁死人，卦妃成京城团宠
Shi Zheyue was forced to marry the deceased heir of Prince Yan, only to discover that the man who had come to fetch her was someone she had once slept with! What a disaster!nShe figured she might as well go through with the marriage. He wouldn’t recognize her anyway. But then she discovered that he was the destined man who could break the curse of her short life:nA hug from him would give her one more day to live; a kiss would give her three.nTo stay alive, she decided to use her old tricks agai
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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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Bewitching the Golden Branch 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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Bound by Spring 缚春情
[The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef
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