Looking for Palace: The Lockheart Jade, or Stories and Mini-Worlds Based on Old TV Dramas 求《宫》宫锁心玉，写老电视剧的文或者小世界

1. 351 比 Who Has a Harder Heart, and Who Hurts More? 比心狠，还是比心疼 Reed Tip茅草尖儿7k WordsCompleted Who Has the Crueler Heart, and Who Feels More Pain? —Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 352 鹏 A Match Made in Pengcheng 鹏城鸳盟 Reed Tip茅草尖儿Urban23k WordsCompleted My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 353 花 A Promise Beneath the Flowering Shadows 花影下的约定 Reed Tip茅草尖儿Marriage & Romance8k WordsCompleted A Promise Beneath the Flowering Shadows —Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 354 贵 The Pinnacle of the Noble Consort 贵妃之巅 Shu Yao Jiu舒窈纠Ancient Romance372k WordsCompleted “A twisted romance” + “palace intrigue” + “a tragedy of the age.” During the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty, palace maid Wan Zhen'er spent ten years bringing Crown Prince Zhu Jianshen, confined in the Cold Palace, back from hell to the world of the living. What began as a desperate act of protection warped, under the influence of power, into a twisted symbiosis. Seventeen years older than him, she was his nursemaid and elder sister, and eventually became his only Noble Consort, as well as hi 824Reads—Score100Shelves

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   No brainless idiots, no naiveté! Consort Wan, a pinnacle of palace intrigue, was a full 17 years older than Emperor Ming Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, yet the emperor loved her to the point of obsession. Ironically, she nearly wiped out his sons… Based on historical facts, well-written, and worth reading! 👍❤️

5. 355 青 The Green Lotus Subdues the World 青莲镇山河 Smiling Wife爱笑的老婆Eastern Fantasy461k WordsCompleted In Earth’s Age of Declining Dharma, martial arts had vanished. Qin Yun died while attempting a breakthrough, then transmigrated with a damaged Chaos Green Lotus Seed and was reborn as a village boy in the final years of the Great Jing dynasty. From the start, he was trapped in a desperate situation. Two worlds were merging, a cataclysm was descending, and a powerful being from the Eternal True Realm sought to possess his body! In his darkest hour, the Chaos Green Lotus Seed awakened, allowing 6Reads7.0Score—Shelves

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   A mortal body devours a powerful being, a single lotus suppresses all heavens—I could watch this fantasy novel's opening ten times over! Who understands?! The protagonist of *The Azure Lotus Suppresses Mountains and Rivers*, Qin Yun, perfectly embodies the "rags-to-riches" trope from the very beginning: a young boy from a desolate village at the end of the Great Jing Dynasty, carrying a Chaos Azure Lotus that has broken through realms, is targeted by a powerful being from the True Realm. He directly devours the opponent's essence to nourish his own lotus—this ruthless opening immediately maximizes the enjoyment! The later settings are even more captivating: the lotus heart opens an eight-trigram world, the Chaos Pool devours the essence of all realms, he cultivates lotuses and farms while gathering fortune to establish a dynasty, and finally suppresses all races in the heavens. There's no need to wait for the protagonist to "survive and develop," and there's the double thrill of "a portable world + dynasty conquest." Following the updates is all about seeing how he uses a single lotus to crush the faces of the kings of the heavens!

6. 356 日 The Sun and Moon Beneath One Sky: Princess Taiping 日月当空：太平公主 Shu Yao Jiu舒窈纠Historical587k WordsCompleted Princess Taiping was one of the most controversial and legendary female political figures in Chinese history, a thorny yet dazzling rose in the splendor of the High Tang. The most beloved daughter of Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian, she married Xue Shao at sixteen in a wedding procession stretching ten miles, hoping for a peaceful life. But she was implicated in Xue Yi's treason case and watched her husband starve to death in prison, shattering her dreams. She put away her innocence 14Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Princess Taiping, Wu Zetian's most beloved daughter, unexpectedly lived a very difficult life. Her husband was ordered to commit suicide by her mother, Wu Zetian, and Princess Taiping herself died a tragic death—forced to commit suicide by her nephew Li Longji, whom she had personally supported. It seems that no one in this world has an easy life.😢😢😢 Based on history, this is worth reading!

7. 357 千 The Greatest Woman in History: Empress Lü Zhi 千古第一女人吕后吕雉 Three Mao One三毛一Modern Romance549k WordsCompleted The greatest queen under heaven, who endured the unbearable only to endure it again: a scheming, adulterous, yet great woman of flesh and blood Branded the “Greatest Poisonous Woman” for two thousand years, Lü Zhi was an “iron-blooded phoenix” who fought her way through a patriarchal age. China’s first woman to rule from behind the curtain, she blazed a trail for women to wield power over an empire. She is counted alongside Wu Zetian and Empress Dowager Cixi as one of China’s three great female —Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 358 末 The Doomsday Azure Tide: I Can See the Eerie Writing 末日青潮，我能看见诡异文字 The Cat from Zanghai臧海的猫Sci-Fi & Apocalypse116k WordsOngoing [Global mutation + plant evolution + monsters + no invincible hero + no saintly protagonist + selfish and self-serving] One day, when humanity has vanished from the world and greenery has covered the streets and skyscrapers, whose call will still echo through the ruins of oblivion? —Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 359 重 Reborn to Protect My Wife and Become Emperor 重生后护妻称帝 Coffee Sublimation咖啡升华Ancient Romance679k WordsCompleted In his past life, he couldn't protect her. In this life, he lives only for her. Reborn three years in the past, Xiao Di has only seven days to turn around the conspiracy that will destroy everything. From the Cold Palace to the imperial court, he advances with careful plans, cutting a path through blood and repaying a hundredfold those who once wronged her. He thought he was protecting a fragile shadow, until she donned her armor and led troops to break through the final palace gate for him. Onl —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   In his past life, he was a deposed crown prince poisoned, and she was an orphaned daughter of a military family who died with resentment for him. When he opened his eyes again, Xiao Di was back three years earlier, on the day of the palace banquet, only seven days before Jiang Zhiyi was framed and killed. This time, he was reborn with a vengeance: seven days to turn the tide, a hundred days to purge the court, and three years to pacify the land. In this meticulously planned game of power, his only unwavering obsession was to protect the woman he had wronged his entire life. When she arrived in full armor, leading her iron cavalry, she stood shoulder to shoulder with him amidst the bloody palace coup; when he defied public opinion and left the six palaces empty, they held hands in the Zichen Palace, vowing "one love for one lifetime." This journey of rebirth ultimately became a timeless legend of the emperor and empress's united hearts. —Reborn, I don't want vast empires, I only want you.

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