I'm Out of Books to Read. Looking for Palace-Intrigue Stories With Better Writing 书荒求文笔好一点的 宫斗文
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The Tyrant Goes Mad When His Bride Is Stolen, and I Go Wild 新婚日被抢，暴君发癫我发疯
[A tyrant who can read minds + a sharp-tongued heroine + two utterly unhinged opponents, one-on-one, both leads are each other’s first] After transmigrating into a mission, Qi Miao was against it from the start. Being a ghost was way more fun than being alive, but if she didn’t complete the mission, her soul would be obliterated. To save her own skin, she came up with a plan on the spot. Wasn’t she just supposed to avenge the original owner? Wasn’t she just supposed to punish her birth family an
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- 2 Why Mess With Her? She's His Majesty's Beloved and His First Wife 惹她干嘛，她是陛下白月光兼发妻 [A calculating, possessive emperor × a sweet, gentle beauty | devoted to one another | mutual healing | growing-up romance | two hopeless romantics falling for each other~] Jiang Yingli has spent four years as Prince Su’s concubine. Xiao Chenglan, Prince Su, has little interest in women, and she is the only concubine in his household, so her life is peaceful and carefree. She thinks things will stay that way, but then Prince Su ascends the throne. Overnight, she rises from a lowly concubine of P 56.4kReads8.9Score6.5k14d adds
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Transmigrating Through Film and TV Worlds Together 综影视之大家一起来穿越
The tags on this story are wrong, and I can’t change them now, so please just bear with it! I’ve started another new story! I got stuck and ran out of ideas for the one I was writing before, and I really wanted to scrap its plot and rewrite it. Since I couldn’t make changes to the old one, I decided to start a new story instead. I felt like I couldn’t handle a CP in the later parts of my previous story, so this one has no CP, just friends. I’ll give it a try. The original female lead, Xia Li, is
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- 4 Film and TV Worlds: I Give Supporting Characters a Golden Finger 综影视之我给配角送金手指 Pure feel-good wish fulfillment. The protagonists never suffer! This story gives side characters golden fingers so they can make the most of their own lives. In each world, the protagonists aren’t reborn or transmigrated, and no heroine takes over their lives. They’re simply given golden fingers and left to live well on their own. After all, what I feel sorry for are the side characters themselves, not their roles or names in the story. Empresses in the Palace: Yixiu, the royal family’s most f 2.6kReads6.2Score11314d adds
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The Empress Has Locked Away Her Heart, and the Crown Prince Has Gone Mad 娘娘封心锁爱，太子他疯魔了
[Not a Chaste Couple] In her previous life, Shen Rong believed that true love could overcome anything in the world. So she stayed unwaveringly by Gu Chen's side, offering advice and shielding him from every attack, both open and covert. In return, all she got was mutual suspicion and scheming. Everyone in the land knew her as jealous and domineering, while he became the new emperor, admired for his loyalty and wise rule. His expression was gentle, but his eyes were cold and impatient as he sai
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- 6 Beneath the Palace Walls, I Seduce Him to Steal Her Favor 宫墙之下，勾他夺宠 Original Title: The Princess Becomes a Favored Consort, Bears a Little Crown Prince, and Seizes Her Sister’s Throne. [Reborn + System + palace intrigue + aloof beauty + stunning beauty + sweet romance] An aloof, noble, one-of-a-kind ruler x a delicate, alluring beauty with an innocent sensuality … Once, she was his nominally illegitimate princess (a lie), and the only stain on his life. He sent her to a foreign land to marry for peace. From atop the palace walls, she leapt, thinking she would b 22.3kReads9.1Score2.1k14d adds
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A Guide to Ridiculously Clever Schemes in the Palace 宫斗系统骚操作指南
Mingshu lives up to her name: she was born knowing how to boldly and openly get special treatment. Usually, the System sends one Host after another on their way. With her, it’s the Host who sends one System after another packing. The best of the best, queen of crazy, the peak of Bright Summit, the king of ham. A runaway workhorse in a wealthy-family novel, a useless moonlight girl in a pampered-darling story, an outlaw in a romance, and the Golden Chelsea of a fairy-tale world. Farming in palace
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- 8 The System Teaches Me to Become Empress Dowager in the Qing Dynasty 清穿之系统教我做太后 Also known as: A Palace Maid's Rise to Power [A palace maid's rise + Kangxi's harem + no exclusive favor + not a brainless power fantasy] From a lowly bondservant to the most revered Empress Dowager, her life is a carefully planned comeback. Modern-day Li Qingning is reborn as Fucha Qingning, a low-ranking bondservant girl in the early years of Kangxi's reign. She is bound to the [Empress Dowager Growth System]. Fail a task, and you're erased; complete the tasks, and you'll become the mother of 953Reads6.6Score10314d adds
- 9 A Slow-Paced Life of Wellness and a Soul That Seeks the Same 慢穿养生人养生魂 [Slow Transmigration] [Wellness] [No Fixed Couple] [Slice of Life] [Wellness Mascot in Three Thousand Worlds], also known as [Slow Transmigration: A Wellness Person Has a Wellness Soul] A newcomer with a rather unusual style has joined the quick transmigration world. Others bring a War God System, a Tycoon System, or a Palace Intrigue System. She brings a [Wellness System]. While her coworkers work themselves to the bone, she just wants to enjoy wellness on the clock. Wellness comes first. Compl 40.1kReads8.6Score4.6k14d adds
- 10 Cannon Fodder in Quick Transmigration Doesn't Play by the Rules 快穿炮灰不按套路来 Female lead: Ming Xi. No fixed pairing. An orphan from the start, with a pleasing appearance and an ordinary education, she’s a struggling web-novel writer. One day, her luck changes, and she binds herself to a System and transmigrates! See how an ordinary person changes the life of a cannon-fodder character! World One: The fake heiress cannon fodder in a story about the real and fake heiresses, complete World Two: The daughter who died tragically in the 1970s, complete World Three: The little c 38.6kReads8.5Score3.5k14d adds
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The Chaos of Zhaohua 昭华乱
[Available in print. Search "Zhaohua Rebellion" on any platform to purchase.] [Strong female lead, satisfying revenge, high-IQ palace intrigue, the heroine schemes against the entire harem, a dangerously unhinged antagonist] Song Zhao has always been a woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her goals, and she has always seen the world more clearly than anyone else. From the moment she learned that Xiao Jingheng had chosen her to enter the palace as a consort, her goal was crystal clear: "I en
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Under the Palace Eaves 宫檐
She promised to glimpse the future of the Qing empire for the man she loved deeply.
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The Crown Prince Dotes on His Concubine and Neglects His Wife: The Empress's Daily Life After Bearing Twins 太子宠妾灭妻，娘娘双胎上位日常
[There are a few typos, so please skip this if that bothers you.] A deranged, ruthless heroine and an obsessive Crown Prince, with exclusive devotion later on, clear-headed palace intrigue, and multiple births. Jiang Shiruo is stunningly beautiful, but only a concubine’s daughter. Still, even a concubine’s daughter deserves to live. Jiang Shiruo has no interest in the other princes. She only wants to enter the Eastern Palace, because that’s the only way she can reach the highest position. After
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- 14 The Emperor's Cherished Consort: The Noble Consort Is Acting Up Again 陛下娇宠：贵妃她又闹了 [Both leads are devoted to each other + Nurturing romance + Spoiled and willful consort + Only one he loves + Happy ending] A steady, devoted emperor × a spoiled, willful consort Fu Jingheng raised Jiang Jinxi from the age of twelve to seventeen, turning a timid princess sent away in a political marriage into the most indulged Crown Princess in the Eastern Palace. Then he ascended the throne and issued an edict naming her Imperial Consort, not Empress. Jiang Jinxi refused the edict and turned ar 17.1kReads7.9Score1.4k14d adds
- 15 Radiant Phoenix: The Favored Noble Consort's Fearless Path 凤仪灼华：恃宠无恐贵妃路 In the end, childhood promises could not withstand the cold machinations of imperial power. Wen Jinshu, the second daughter of the current prime minister, Wen, was once the emperor’s favorite. Because of their childhood bond, she willingly accepted the position of Noble Consort, believing they would travel the vast kingdom hand in hand. Only after the child in her womb quietly slipped away did she realize what a snake lay beneath the empress’s gentle, virtuous mask, and that the emperor she had 1.8kReads8.1Score14314d adds
- 16 The Sweetheart in the Palace of Heavenly Purity Is Being Spoiled Rotten by His Majesty 养心殿那位娇娇，被陛下宠疯了 [One-on-one, both chaste + sweet romance + airheaded beauty + healing body scent + pregnancy and childbirth + cozy foodie life] Shuyi is known throughout the Imperial Food Bureau as a “porcelain doll.” With skin like ice and bones like jade, she blushes at the slightest touch and cries if anyone so much as scolds her. She'd planned to keep her head down in the palace, cook delicious food, save up enough silver, and retire outside the palace. But by a twist of fate, she was reassigned to serve t 6.2kReads7.7Score72914d adds
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Survival Game: I'm the Big Shot's Golden Finger 生存游戏，我是大佬的金手指
In the New World Galaxy Butterfly game space, to promote the development of a republic of star citizens, the Heart of the Universe, Nazhi, has custom-designed the [Star World Order Plan] for Blue Star citizens, with the aim of selecting outstanding star citizens. The New World Galaxy Butterfly game officially launched on Blue Star on July 3, 2025. In the first phase, one million Blue Star residents entered the closed beta. Ruan Pingxia, frail and sickly since childhood, somehow received a beta i
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The Beautiful, Beguiling Princess Has the Eunuch of Nine Thousand Years Longing to Overstep His Place 公主人美又娇，九千岁日日想以下犯上
In her previous life, Feng Zhaoyue, the esteemed Protector Princess of the Beiliang Kingdom, trusted the wrong man. She squandered a winning hand and died in bitterness. When she opens her eyes again, she beats the scumbag, tramples the scheming homewrecker, and when the prime minister files a complaint? She has his household seized! She strengthens imperial power and purges the court. Who says women are inferior to men? Reborn, Feng Zhaoyue pays back every slight in full. Everyone says the prin
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The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语
You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts…
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Beauty and Strategy in a Land of Rivers and Mountains 山河美人谋
[Proud young lady who always gets even vs. frail, scheming Ninth Prince] Her fiancé was a total jerk, and he was planning to kill her to keep her quiet. Ye Jiao decided to strike first and find a scapegoat while she was at it. She thought the scapegoat would be a transparent, sickly “living corpse,” but rumors were misleading. He was clearly a two-faced, deeply cunning Ninth Prince. After Ye Jiao used the Ninth Prince’s name to punish her scumbag fiancé, Li Ce, the real Ninth Prince: “Miss, I be
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Entertainment to the Death: I Made a Tokusatsu Series That Left the Whole Internet in the Dust 娱乐至死，拍部特摄吊打全网
The rating just came out, so please don’t worry about it. I won’t abandon the novel. So far, the series featured include Ultraman Tiga, Kamen Rider Kuuga, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, Evangelion, Armor Hero Nava, Rainbow Cat, The Legend of Qin, Hikaru no Go, the original Ultraman, Return of Ultraman, Ultraseven, Ultraman Ace, Kamen Rider Ryuki, Cardcaptor Sakura, The Legend of Qin, Year Hare Affair, The Legend of Luo Xiaohei, Love Live!, K-On!, Digimon, Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger, Armor Hero, Prett
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- 22 I Became Emperor in Young Swordsman and Got Livestreamed 在少歌当皇帝被直播了 “Three hundred elite imperial soldiers, driven back by a few young upstarts?!” “The person I wanted is nowhere to be seen, and all that came back was a broken coffin? What a colossal joke!” In the world of Young White Horse in the Spring Breeze Li Changsheng, Xiao Ruofeng, Lei Mengsha, and the others suddenly looked up at the sky screen. In the world of Blood of the Dark River Su Muyu, Su Changhe, and Bai Hehuai also narrowed their eyes in shock. Was that him? The emperor whom Xiao Se, Lei Wujie 13.3kReads7.6Score40414d adds
- 23 Selling Immortal Peaches: Right Outside the Shence Mansion 卖仙跳墙，地点竟在神策府门口 After transmigrating into Honkai: Star Rail, Luoshui unexpectedly acquires a street-stall System. He sells Sweet Flower Chicken in Pier Point, Fishy Fishy Chanted Pie at Robin's concert, and Buddha Jumps Over the Wall in Aurum Alley. His stall makes him famous throughout the cosmos, and his cooking is utterly irresistible. Just as new customers are enjoying his delicious food in some corner of the universe... Aventurine: “What do you mean my Sweet Flower Chicken got robbed by the Stellaron Hunte 1.5kReads8.2Score14914d adds
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The Little Palace Maid's Thoughts Were Read 小宫女被读心了
After transmigrating into the palace as a maid, Qin Jianjian works diligently, flatters those above her, and deceives those below her. In the end, she becomes the top-ranked maid serving the Empress Dowager. She has undoubtedly reached the pinnacle of her profession. Money she’s openly entitled to, along with money she shouldn’t have, keeps flowing into Qin Jianjian’s pockets. Delighted, she just has to wait until she’s old enough to leave the palace and retire early. Who could have guessed the
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A Concubine’s Daily Struggle to Stay Alive in the Prince’s Manor 王府侍妾的苟命日常
[Intense Household Intrigue + A Touch of Ensemble Cast + Plot-Driven + Everyone Has Eight Hundred Schemes] After transmigrating into the body of a concubine in the Prince of Jing's residence, Xie Run only wants to live in peace and, ideally, reach a hundred years old. At first, everything in the prince's residence is orderly. The prince shares his favor equally, the princess consort's position is secure, and the secondary consorts and concubines know their place. Who could have guessed that ever
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- 26 No More Slacking: The Prince’s Favorite Concubine’s Daily Grind 不当咸鱼，王府宠妾的内卷日常 [Transmigration + cutthroat household competition + no slacking off + ambitious heroine] Shen Wei, a die-hard rat-race fanatic, transmigrated into the lowest-ranking maid in a prince’s manor. Prince Yan held a position of great prestige, but all his wives and concubines had given up trying. The princess consort, born to a prestigious family, was as aloof as a chrysanthemum. The secondary consort wanted lifelong monogamy. The reborn woman had lost all hope in Prince Yan and was content to lie fla 69kReads9.4Score8.7k14d adds
- 27 The Daily Life of a Laid-Back Concubine After Transmigrating 穿越之闲鱼妾室的日常 [Transmigration + household and palace intrigue + no golden finger + devoted love later on] Zhang Xinian transmigrated into the body of a concubine in Prince Jing’s household. Above her was the princess consort, backed by powerful connections and ruthless in her methods. Beside her was a brainless side consort with overwhelming fighting prowess. Below her, a reborn woman and a transmigrated woman were locked in fierce competition. Zhang Xinian trembled with fear. She had no golden finger and did 104.7kReads9.4Score12.2k14d adds
- 28 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 90.9kReads9.6Score12.1k14d adds
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You Can’t Bully an Orphan Girl 孤女不可欺
In her previous life, Wen Ruochao was flayed and dismembered by her husband's family, then left bleeding at the edge of a cliff. Now she's reborn! Back at the spring banquet where the schemes began, she looks at the pack of hypocritical men and vile women before her, smiling brightly. Sorry, my revenge story is just getting started! Take down the wicked relatives and leave them penniless; punish the scumbag and kick him into the lake to feed the fish; tear off the white lotus's mask and ruin
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: I Ran Into Chen Pi Setting Up a Stall from the Start 盗笔：开局撞见陈皮在摆摊
[The author is a bit of a country bumpkin who adores Mary Sue stories. Many people will fall at the female lead's feet one after another.] [Female lead: face like Guanyin, heart like a viper (the viper side isn't too obvious yet; early on, she gets by on her social skills, keeping everyone happy for now. If she's unhappy, she'll just keep score). Extremely vindictive!] Yue Mingzhu is a self-serving person. Unfortunately, she's stuck with a useless System. Fortunately, her personal motto is flexi
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- 31 EN Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集？我带国家队下场 (A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for 123.7kReads9.7Score17.5k14d adds
- 32 The Top-Ranked Road Survivalist Says She'll Walk to the End of the Road 公路求生榜一说她要走到公路尽头 Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec 434kReads9.4Score40.6k14d adds
- 33 Ne Zha: The Three Realms Are Suffering. I Only Kill, Never Save 哪吒：三界皆苦，我只杀不渡 [Imagine yourself as the protagonist, with Nezha as the female lead’s love interest; lots of original worldbuilding; a Nezha dream girl story. If that’s not your thing, please move along.] Once upon a time, in Nezha’s eyes, every mortal, immortal, and god fell into one of two categories: those he could kill, and those he couldn’t. Later, Nezha sorted them into new categories: those he could kill, those he couldn’t, and Chaoxi. … After Chaoxi died, she caught the transmigration wave and transmigr 14.2kReads9.2Score1.9k14d adds
- 34 She’s the Original Heroine of the Elite Academy, and Everyone Falls for Her at First Breath 她是贵族学院原女主，呼吸即爱上 [Lying System + Financial Conglomerate + Noble Academy + Flirtatious Charmer + Contrasting Persona + Changing Fate] The heroine is a gifted actress who lies and pretends to be prey. She's a seemingly delicate young lady who knows how to control others. She isn't a strong heroine, and uses everyone, including herself. * Xi Roujing is the heroine of a noble-school comic, destined to be cast aside and replaced. The readers' love and sympathy for her give rise to a Lying System. In the altered s 6.9kReads9.3Score87214d adds
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I Wish Us Joy Forever 我愿常欢喜
[Women’s Growth + Romance and Marriage + Workplace + Relationships] Girls from different family backgrounds will all find their own happiness! A rose raised in a greenhouse will weather life’s storms, while a girl who grows like a weed will find her own spring. She is a rich girl from a big city, yet she falls prey to a gold-digging boyfriend, sexual harassment at work, and exclusion by her colleagues... She is a small-town academic who gets extorted by a fellow villager and drained by parents w
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The Truth Shines Eternal 昭雪长明
Clear Justice, Everlasting Light
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- 37 The Consort Is All Charm and Cunning, Scheming Her Way to the Top 娘娘又茶又媚，一路宫斗上位 Signed for print publication In the third year of the Yifeng era, a concubine-born daughter of the Ningyang Marquis’s household enters the palace. The palace is a vast, treacherous place, where the one thing you must never do is give your heart away. Ning Shuyan is clear-eyed: she wants wealth and prestige, along with the emperor’s favor. For three years, she carefully plots each step, wins the emperor’s attention, and rises from Talented Lady to Noble Consort. Rumor has it that the emperor only 56.6kReads9.5Score7k14d adds
- 38 After Taking Her Sister's Place in the Palace to Win Favor, She Turns Out to Be the Emperor's Beloved 替姐入宫争宠后，竟是帝王白月光 (A short drama adaptation with the same title is now available) [A timid, cowardly little beauty who only wants to keep her head down VS a ruthless, solitary emperor who indulges the heroine without limit] [Palace intrigue, love at first sight, a gradual romance, doted on from the start, the hero is completely devoted to her] Song Wu was the illegitimate daughter of the Minister of Revenue in the Great Yan Dynasty. From birth, she was branded as an ill omen and sent away from the capital. When s 21.5kReads8.5Score2.5k14d adds
- 39 After Entering the Palace in Her Sister's Place, the Young Mistress Rises Through the Ranks 替姐入宫后，小主她一路高升 [Strong Male Lead and Strong Female Lead + Favored Consort + Palace Intrigue + Adorable Baby + Sole Devotion + Childbirth] (The early story leans toward palace intrigue, with the heroine putting on an act and scheming against the hero. Later, their feelings erupt, and he devotes himself to her alone.) After transmigrating, she becomes an illegitimate daughter of the Su family. Her birth mother died young, her father shows her no affection, and her stepmother is cruel. A complete nobody at home, 3kReads9.0Score33114d adds
- 40 The White Moonlight Noble Consort’s Daily Life in the Harem 白月光贵妃的后宫日常 (Cover used with permission) With an illustrious family background, breathtaking beauty, and the distinction of being the emperor’s moonlight, Jiang Hui should have found life as a Noble Consort effortlessly easy. Unfortunately, the sisters in all but name in the Eastern Palace, wave after wave of beautiful candidates from the provinces, and the supposed substitutes who resemble her in looks and bearing all tell her the same thing: no one can walk unscathed through the imperial harem. [Alternate 25.1kReads9.3Score2k14d adds
- 41 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 41.2kReads9.6Score5.9k14d adds
- 42 The Entire Court Longs for the Empress to Attend Court and Rule 满朝文武盼着皇后娘娘上朝理政 (The live-action series is out!) After her elder sister dies in palace infighting, Shen Shixi enters the palace by imperial decree to be selected as a consort. Within the palace are the powerful and virtuous Empress, born to the imperial in-laws; Consort De, born to an aristocratic family and exceptionally prolific; Consort Rong, the Emperor's favorite, with a strong artistic streak; Consort Qiong, whose superb cooking has won the Emperor's heart; and Consort Xiurong, known as a learned woman an 51.7kReads9.1Score5.5k14d adds
- 43 In the Qing Court, Kangxi Wants Only Me 清穿之康熙只要我一个 What’s it like when someone who firmly believes in historical materialism suddenly transmigrates? Jing Su: ...I’d really like to think about it, but my freshly beaten backside won’t let me. To stay alive, Jing Su quickly sets herself some life goals. Goal one: Keep her head down until she can leave the palace at twenty-five! Why it fell through: Staying alive is too hard. She has to climb higher. Goal two: Su Malagu is so impressive. I want to be like her! Why it fell through: I’ve fallen for th 3.4kReads9.2Score27514d adds
- 44 The Fourth Prince's Consort's Favor: Raising Children in the Inner Court 盛宠四福晋：后院养崽记 Shu Wen transmigrates into the Fourth Prince's household in the Qing dynasty and becomes obsessed with raising children, while the Fourth Prince falls deeply in love with her. Shu Wen, a "seedling gardener," was on her way to Beijing to receive an award when a plane crash sent her transmigrating to the Qing dynasty. She wakes up as the Fourth Prince's principal wife, Lady Ulanara, the poor woman who spent the first half of her life trying to have children and the second half mourning Honghui. Sh 3.1kReads9.0Score25714d adds
- 45 Qing Transmigration: The Noble Consort Takes Down Consort De and Becomes Empress Dowager 清穿：贵妃娘娘她灭了德妃成太后 [Child-rearing (not self-sacrificing; willing to go after her mother, but never schemes against children) + Harem intrigue] After transmigrating into the Qing Dynasty as Noble Consort Tongjia during the reign of Kangxi, Ruirui's first thought was to go find that poor child... Ruirui didn't like the Qing Dynasty. But if she had to choose one person in all of Great Qing, it would be the Fourth Prince, later the Yongzheng Emperor. Not because she liked him, but because she felt for him. She felt fo 14.4kReads9.4Score1.2k14d adds
- 46 Changing Fate in the Qing Dynasty: The Empress Raises a Reborn Child 清穿改命：娘娘养了个重生崽 [Qing Dynasty transmigration + raising a child + System + harem power struggles] Tong Suwan transmigrates into the past and becomes Empress Xiaoyiren, the adoptive mother of Emperor Yongzheng. For the first ten years, she has no memories of modern life. But thanks to her intelligence, she succeeds in building a deep bond with Emperor Kangxi. At the age of ten, her memories return. With nothing to tie her to her modern life, she readily accepts her situation, then receives the essential transmigr 1.8kReads8.8Score14114d adds
- 47 Yi Xiu Reborn: Raising Her Kids Right Before Embracing a Life of Leisure 宜修重生之养好崽崽开始摆烂人生 Yixiu is Reborn before marrying into the prince’s household. In this life, all she wants is to raise Honghui well and ascend to the throne as Empress Dowager. Romance is nothing but a passing cloud. [Reborn] [Treats Yinzhen as nothing more than her boss] [Rouze is despised] Everyone gets a happy ending... with no regrets. Not historically accurate! Not historically accurate! Please don’t confuse this with real history! Thank you! 2.4kReads8.4Score23714d adds
- 48 After the Crown Princess Conceives Twins, the Crown Prince Favors His Beloved Concubine and Makes Her Empress 灭太子妃怀双胎，太子宠娇妾封后 [Traditional historical romance. Not a virginal couple! + Clear-headed heroine gradually grows stronger in palace intrigue + Twins + Winning the Crown Prince’s heart, aiming for the empress’s throne] An Ruyan clutched her book of Thirty-Six Stratagems and set out to win over the tyrannical Crown Prince!!! An Ruyan was rescued by Prince Yan when she was robbed while visiting a temple. She had long been in love with him, but an unexpected incident made her see what a scumbag he was. Determined to 2.3kReads8.9Score23514d adds
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
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- 50 A Rhapsody of Palace Flowers 宫花赋 [A no-nonsense, trope-defying palace-intrigue drama + no love for the emperor + ensemble of women] Everyone has their own ambitions. I have no interest in fighting other women over a man. She was little Qing Luo, a girl who valued her life above all else. Abandoned by her parents as a child, she had wandered through hardship until she entered the Forbidden City, where she met the beautiful, gracious Yue Ren and the clever, perceptive Lü Zhu. At last, her wandering heart found a home. The three s 30.4kReads9.6Score4k14d adds
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