Looking for Palace Intrigue With a Gripping Plot. No Beginner-Level Writing, Please. Any Recommendations? 想要宫斗，剧情精彩，文笔小白的退，大家推荐推荐

1. 151 沈 Chancellor Shen, Your Wife Took the Kids Out to Find Their Dad Again! 沈相，你媳妇又带崽出去找爹了！ Passion Fruit百香果果Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Adorable child + foresight + doted on by everyone + silly antics + laugh-out-loud comedy] “Mother, why don’t you recognize me?” Ji Wanwan has only just transmigrated when she suddenly finds herself with a five-year-old son, and he’s her own flesh and blood! Her adorable, daddy-like son is clever and well-behaved, and can even see the future. Every now and then, he blurts out things like: “Mother, that auntie who’s so close to you is a bad person!” “Second Uncle, if you take this road this year, 27kReads9.3Score3.4kShelves
2. 152 重 Reborn Noble Daughter: The Regent's Beloved Is Absolutely Stunning 重生嫡女：摄政王的心尖尖超绝色 Jia Qi嘉七Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted When her half-sister asked with a sweet smile, “Does it hurt?” When her scumbag lover gouged out her eyes, leaving her weeping blood; when her aunt conspired with an inside accomplice to frame the General’s residence, causing all 370 people in the household to be executed, Mu Xiaoxiao regretted everything. She had let wolves into her home, bringing herself to this end, and now she died with regrets. Mu Xiaoxiao swore that if she had another life, she would tear those treacherous beasts limb from 2.7kReads9.2Score395Shelves
3. 153 太 The Empress Dowager's Retirement Life 太后的退休生活 Zhou Xinhan周信含Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [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 7.9kReads8.4Score449Shelves

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4. 154 长 Big Sister Comes Home 长姐回家 February Flourishes二月红火Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Farming Story + Everyday Prosperity + Standing Up to Villains + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + No Golden Finger + Romance] With her family’s considerable fortune behind her, the lazy Su Wanqing secretly rejoiced. As long as she didn’t make reckless investments or stir up trouble, she could lie flat for the rest of her life. Then she woke up in a poor backwater in an unknown dynasty, having transmigrated into the role of the wicked eldest sister who had run off with the Su family’s money. Her father 5.1kReads8.4Score666Shelves
5. 155 原 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 Patient Number Five五号病患Ancient Romance801k WordsCompleted [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 6.7kReads7.9Score736Shelves
6. 156 我 I Can Change the Plot: The Prince Goes From Riding a Horse to Being a Packhorse 我能改剧情，王爷骑马变驮马 Yi Qiansha忆茜纱Ancient Romance647k WordsCompleted [Laugh-Out-Loud Shenanigans + Transmigration into a Book + Plot Rewrites + Strong Female Lead + No Romance] This book is absolutely unhinged (originally titled "I Changed the Plot and Made the Regent Eat You-Know-What". That title was rejected, so it got a new one.) After getting dumped by her domineering CEO boyfriend, Shu Yan happens upon a Supporting Female Character Revenge System. It lets her transmigrate into all kinds of novels and rewrite the plots for the supporting female characters. · 16.5kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves
7. 157 奸 Before the Treacherous Chancellor Died, the Sky Screen Revealed She Was a Woman 奸相惨死前，被天幕扒出女儿身 Writer from Flower Fruit Mountain花果山笔者Ancient Romance387k WordsCompleted [Sky screen descends + woman disguises herself as a man + serves in the imperial court + beautiful, powerful, and tragic + clears her name] Su Yandong is the most treacherous minister in the Great Yu Dynasty. Relying on her handsome looks, she builds a faction for personal gain, embezzles without restraint, carries on illicit affairs with imperial consorts, and frames loyal officials with fabricated charges. Everyone in court despises her to the core. When the new emperor purges the old regime, 3kReads7.2Score398Shelves
8. 158 恶 Reborn After My Own Son, the Cruel Empress Dowager, Stabbed Me to Death 恶毒太后被亲儿子捅死之后重生了 Ink墨色Ancient Romance1.9M WordsCompleted The vicious Empress Dowager Jiang Mingzhu was reborn. In her previous life, to put her son on the throne, she poisoned and tried to assassinate the emperor, colluded with court officials, drugged a pregnant consort to make her miscarry, and plotted against the young crown prince. Every time she schemed, she put her own life on the line to grind her stepson's face into the dirt. But when the plot to put the son she'd worked so hard to support on the throne was exposed, he stabbed her in the back 20.5kReads8.9Score2.1kShelves
9. 159 长 The Grand Princess Returns to Court, Slays the Evil Empress, and Bathes the Palace in Blood 长公主归朝，剑斩妖后，血染朝堂 The Lazy Cat Young Master慵懒的猫公子Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Overpowered heroine + light ensemble cast + no romance + unshakably righteous, to a fault + unifies the realm] “The Eldest Princess has returned to court! Stand aside at once!” Yuchao, spring of the third year of the Gen era. Three years after the new emperor's ascension, war raged along the borders, drought struck the north, and plague ravaged the south. Empress Zhaozhao ruled from behind the curtain, promoting her cronies and framing loyal officials. The court was mired in corruption, and nei 2.3kReads8.4Score264Shelves
10. 160 快 Quick Transmigration: The Tribunal 快穿：审判局 A Dream on a Pillow of Begonia一枕棠Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted A genuinely unhinged villainess! No male lead! All the men are supporting characters! [No Fixed Couple / Quick Transmigration] Qi Yan is an enforcer with the Judgment Bureau. Her mission is to transmigrate into various worlds and purge their villains. These villains commit heinous, unforgivable crimes, and every moment they’re trying to hurt her. But little by little, they change. A ruthless upstart who clawed his way from the bottom to the top drops to one knee: “I want to marry you. Let me mak 8.3kReads9.4Score656Shelves
11. 161 有 A Land Awaits You 有片山河在等你们 Outlaw Roaming the Mountains and Rivers游荡山河的法外狂徒Modern Romance388k WordsOngoing [War of Resistance Against America and Aid Korea] [An alternate world! Alternate! Alternate! Alternate!] [No System, no romance for the protagonist, ignore that tag! The story focuses on the war, so enjoy without worry!] [The female lead disguises herself as a man. If that’s not your thing, steer clear!] [Ensemble cast, with a special focus on those most lovable people] Synopsis 1: Wu Mingyue, a sniper in a unit of the 21st-century Chinese Army, transmigrates to the summer of 1950 after rescuing 980Reads8.9Score100Shelves
12. 162 今 From Modern Times to Ancient Days: A Brother and Sister Take on the Past 今穿古，姐弟二人闯古代 Sweet and Sour Chestnuts酸甜口糖炒栗子Ancient Romance611k WordsCompleted Jiang Xiaoyu transmigrated, and her younger brother came along too. But he had become so little, and now there was also a baby sister only a few months old. How on earth was she supposed to manage? Jiang Xiaoyu was overwhelmed. Her father had gone off to war and never returned. It seemed he had died on the battlefield. Her mother... Her mother had disappeared. Whether she was alive or dead, no one knew. Their grandfather, grandmother, and third uncle’s family had abandoned the three siblings, to 2.7kReads8.6Score278Shelves
13. 163 重 With My Reborn Son's High-Stakes Schemes, Becoming Empress Dowager Is No Dream 重生儿子手段高，晋升太后不是梦 Chiyo千代Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Fictional Imperial Harem Drama + No Romance + Giving Birth and Raising Kids + My Son Must Be Crown Prince + Ambitious + Clear-Eyed] Content warning: The romance isn’t mutually exclusive, she doesn’t love the male lead, and there are painful, heartbreaking parts. The male lead is a scumbag emperor. Song Yuyan was hooked on a palace-harem management game. She never expected to open her eyes and find she had transmigrated to ancient times. After keeping a low profile for three years, she entered t 4.8kReads9.3Score480Shelves
14. 164 都 The King of Immortals in the City 都市仙王之王 I Am Wang Shisan在下王十三Urban1.7M WordsCompleted When Feng Xiaolou was twenty, his parents mysteriously disappeared, leaving him only an oral account of his family's past. The once illustrious Feng clan, a family of cultivators, now had no one but him left to fend for himself. Forced to drop out of school to make ends meet, he scraped by doing odd jobs in Jiangcheng. Starting with the Yin-Yang Mirror, he began his journey from ordinary mortal to peak powerhouse. Guided by the mirror, he took control of Jiangcheng's economic lifelines and estab 23Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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15. 165 从 Taking Control of the World, Starting with the Patrol Office 从巡检司开始掌控天下 I Am Wang Shisan在下王十三Eastern Fantasy2.2M WordsCompleted The protagonist, Wang Shisan, is a low-ranking ninth-grade patrol officer in the Yuwo Patrol Office of Luzhou. From the government offices to the martial world, he uses his blade and his wits to break through deadlocks, unite forces, and climb step by step. In the end, he overthrows the decaying imperial regime and ascends the throne. Ruling the world is not his final goal. Leading his loyal and valiant followers, he conquers the globe and puts an end to war through war, until the Dragon Banner 203Reads8.6Score—Shelves
16. 166 春 Spring Banquet 春日宴 Egrets in Pairs白鹭成双Ancient Romance664k WordsCompleted She kept male favorites and toyed with powerful ministers! For eight years, the arrogant and tyrannical Princess Danyang, Li Huaiyu, wreaked havoc across the court and country. She died on the day the new emperor ascended the throne, bleeding from every orifice in a truly gruesome death. The officials celebrated and the people rejoiced: Evil gets what it deserves! Good riddance! Yet on the seventh day after her death, Princess Danyang returned to life in the body of the Bai family’s Fourth Mis 16.1kReads9.4Score2.6kShelves

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    When I ran out of novels I wanted to read, I read Spring Banquet again. I've read it several times and still like it. I recommend everyone to read it.

17. 167 替 After Marrying the Crippled Prince in Her Sister’s Place, I Became His Lifesaver 替嫁残王后，我成了他的救命恩人 Prince Bell贝尔王子Ancient Romance177k WordsCompleted After Becoming the Substitute Bride of a Disabled Prince, I Became His Lifesaver [One-on-one romance, two strong leads, physician heroine, secret identities, sweet romance, political intrigue] On the night I became a substitute bride, I was sent back. A sea of blood lay beyond the bridal sedan. My husband, the disabled prince, sat atop a mountain of corpses, wearing an iron mask. He lifted the curtain with his riding crop and said with disgust, “The Minister of Revenue's household really did sen 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    She married for her sister, which was originally a transaction, but became the only light in his abyss life. He was physically disabled and cold-hearted, and despised the world, but he could not be cruel to her. From tit-for-tat to mutual support, she used medical skills to heal his scars, and he used tenderness to heal her past. This is a marriage that started with interests, but composed the most affectionate love song. See how two broken souls become each other's strongest support.

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