2026'S Best Palace Intrigue, Household Intrigue, and Period Dramas 2026宫斗宅斗、古风世情巅峰神作
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I Took My Eldest Sister's Place in the Palace, and I Loved It. She Regretted It 替嫡长姐入宫后，我爽翻，她悔了
The rating has only just come in and will rise later, so don’t be put off by the low score. Gu Ya is the second legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo’s household. With an elder brother and sister to shoulder the family’s responsibilities, she had thought she’d only need to marry off for the family once she came of age. But then her eldest sister changed her mind and refused to enter the palace. To avoid making an enemy of the emperor, the Duke of Zhenguo’s household had to send in an unwill
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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 manhua adaptation is out! I had a look, and it’s pretty good!) After her elder sister dies in the palace intrigues, Shen Shixi enters the palace by imperial decree to be selected as a consort. The palace is home to a virtuous and capable empress with immense power and a distinguished maternal family; a noble consort from a prestigious clan who is incredibly good at having children; a Consort Rong who is the emperor’s favorite and has a highly artistic temperament; a Consort Qiong whose extr
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Entering the Imperial Harem 入春宫
[Palace intrigue + villainess with a career-driven mind + fluffy mind-reading + men competing for her] Su Fuqu was the legitimate youngest daughter of the Grand Preceptor. She and the Crown Prince, Qin Zhaolin, grew up together and were deeply in love. But after she came of age, Qin Zhaolin abandoned her, chose her cousin as his wife, and asked Su Fuqu to become his concubine. She turned around and schemed her way into the emperor's bed, sowing discord between father and son and throwing the pal
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I Only Sneaked a Glance at Him 我只偷看他一眼
During the speech by the freshman class representative, Chen Nan fell for Lu Xu at first sight, and for the rest of her life. The pink sunset beyond the window filled the entire sky, like a beautiful landscape painting. The clouds looked drunk, their cheeks flushed with color. Chen Nan held her breath and stole a sidelong glance at Lu Xu. His profile was youthful and striking, and he held his book with perfect posture. A ray of light fell on the yellowed pages, and touched him as well. The dayli
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Wutong Lane 梧桐巷
[Bright and kind-hearted Ning Wan x gentle genius Song Qingyan] [Love at first sight + Secret love comes true + Youthful heartache + BE] When the innocent, sunny Ning Wan fell in love with Song Qingyan at first sight, he was the golden boy in everyone's eyes. She wrote her secret feelings in her diary, planning to keep them to herself. By a twist of fate, Song Qingyan became her temporary guardian. During the days when she was ostracized and bullied, he became the light in her life. She held on
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She Stopped Comforting Him 她不哄他了
A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t
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The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事
Lin Xu has a crush on the popular boy Ye Feng, and she remembers countless little details about him. Every day, Lin Xu times her departure down to the second, getting dressed and putting on her shoes in a hurry, all for the chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of his back. The music playing during the long break outside her classroom is Xu Song’s “Moon over Luzhou.” Lin Xu knows it’s the favorite song of Ye Feng, the school radio station’s announcer. Lin Xu has even stayed up all night organizing
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The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟
Years after graduation, a gossip post begins circulating on the message board for City Experimental School. The school's 2011 beauty, Ye Xiao, and its most handsome boy from the same year, Ruan Yusheng, are a couple. Their classmates, who know them well, rush over to set the record straight: it's pure rumor. There was never any spark between the two of them. Ye Xiao's profile even says, “Person I hate most: Ruan Yusheng.” People in the know go so far as to say, “Ye Xiao feels nothing but hatred
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You Broke Your Promise 你失信了
The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily
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A Wink from the Favorite Concubine, and She Gets It All: Family Status and Rank! 宠妾勾勾手，家世位分样样有！
A seductive, stunning, ambitious concubine with acting chops × the unruly, arrogant Prince Mu who always has her back and hands her the knife After a palace selection and an imperial edict, Cheng Rong went from being the daughter of a low-ranking eighth-grade official to the lowest-ranking concubine in Prince Mu’s estate, all thanks to her face. Everyone said that if she was going to be a concubine, she had to know her place, be cautious, and keep her head down. Cheng Rong pouted. “Is that so?”
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I Became the Marquis's Wife and Made the Female Lead, His Mistress, Despair 穿成侯夫人，让当外室的女主绝望
Transmigrate into a book + palace and household intrigue + a reborn son + satisfying wish fulfillment + a life spent lying flat After winning the family inheritance battle by a landslide, Lin Yanran was so delighted that she took up an extreme sport and fell to her death. By sheer luck, she transmigrated into a novel she'd read, becoming the legal wife who died of depression after the male lead kept a mistress. Naturally, the female lead was that very mistress who had successfully moved into the
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My Husband Is Too Frail to Care for Himself 我的夫君柔弱不能自理
[Signed for publication] I saved the whole capital by slacking off! I conquered the world through sheer bluster! Excerpt 1: “Your Highness, the Consort has been completely taken in by the Princess Consort. His Majesty wants us to pay compensation.” Jiang Chonghua: “Tell Father that if he has the nerve, he can talk to the Princess Consort himself.” “Your Highness, His Majesty wouldn’t dare. He says he’s afraid he’ll get dragged into it too.” Excerpt 2: “Your Highness, our two nations are at war,
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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
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The Marquess's Wife Wants to Die of Old Age in Peace 侯府主母要寿终正寝
A history major pulls an all-nighter and dies suddenly, only to become Chen Yuhu, the matriarch of an ancient household, with no golden finger whatsoever. But you have to learn to be content. As a modern, clear-eyed college student, Chen Yuhu wants to tell the original matriarch: don't be such a lovesick fool. Treasure your life of immense wealth and status. She certainly does. She sends her biased mother-in-law away to cultivate in seclusion, keeps the obedient and pretty concubine around to pl
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The Mute Palace Maid’s Daily Life 哑巴宫女日常
Maids! Maids! No Romance Bai Zhi was sold into the palace by her family when she was five. At ten, she was assigned to serve the Fifth Prince, who was the same age as her. At fifteen, she saved his life during the spring hunt. The Fifth Prince eventually ascended the throne and became Emperor Zhaoxuan, while Bai Zhi became the head auntie of the Imperial Tea Room in the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Because Bai Zhi was quiet and had once saved Emperor Zhaoxuan's life, she became a famous mute m
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Wasn’t This an Arranged Marriage? Why Is Lord Pei So in Love with Me? 不是联姻吗？裴大人怎么这么爱
Jiang Shiyuan spent ten years pursuing Shen Lüchu, only to receive four words on her eighteenth birthday: “You make me sick.” So Jiang Shiyuan, the girl who made Shen Lüchu sick, turned around and agreed to her family’s arranged marriage, preparing to marry into the Pei family. The Pei family was the most powerful clan in the capital, with influence that reached the heavens, far beyond what Jiang Shiyuan could aspire to. Fortunately, the family was full of talented men, but one grandson, Pei
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The Curvaceous Heiress Seduces the Buddha’s Chosen One, and the Crown Prince Breaks His Vows 丰腴嫡女勾佛子，太子他破戒失控
[A true master of men and scheming beauty × an obsessive, unhinged, celibate Crown Prince; one-on-one romance, he falls hard and first, intensely sweet and flirtatious] “I cultivate Buddhism. I have no interest in women.” “Then what was pressed against me last night, Your Highness...?” After transmigrating into the body of a Marquis’s legitimate daughter who was emotionally abused to death, Su Yaoyao looked at her voluptuous, bewitching figure in the mirror and smiled. The original owner had tru
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My Scumbag Prince Changed His Heart Before Our Wedding, So I Married His Mortal Enemy Instead. Now He's Lost It 大婚前渣王变心，我改嫁死对头，他疯了
This novel has been adapted into the short drama My Coldhearted Prince Changed His Heart Before Our Wedding, So I Married My Archrival Instead, and He Cried. It is now available on the Hongguo Short Drama app. Everyone in the capital knows that Prince Jin loves Chu Yueli madly. When A Li was six, Prince Jin nearly died in a sea of flames while saving her. When A Li was twelve, Prince Jin took her to the battlefield and won her a vast territory in the north. When A Li came of age, Prince Jin knel
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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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Film and TV Crossover: My Sister Deserves to Be Free and Honored 综影视：我的妹妹应当自在尊贵
·The Divine Sovereign’s Fall: In ancient times, the Divine Sovereign Xuan Qiong Hua Qing merged with the Dao to save all living beings. He should have perished completely, but the prayers of the people left him a glimmer of life. Reborn into the cycle of reincarnation, he must journey through three thousand minor worlds to recover the fragments of his scattered divine soul. Every Chosen One of Fate he wins over in a world earns him another fragment. When the aloof Sovereign encounters one bizarr
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Good Pregnancy System! The Noble Consort Is Sweet and Soft 好孕系统！贵妃她又娇又软
[A soft, sweet, calculating little bunny heroine X a domineering, cold-blooded emperor with a love obsession] Shen Cihuan is the youngest daughter of Chancellor Shen. Innocent, lively, sweet, and adorable, she enters the palace to compete for the emperor’s favor in her older sister’s place. What if she doesn’t know how to compete for his favor? No problem. She has a palace intrigue and fertility System. An intoxicating natural scent Love at first sight from the emperor Fertility pills, dragon-an
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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
[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
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Film and TV Crossover: Yi's Dream Life 综影视怡梦人生
Till the End of the Moon is currently being updated... 1. The Palace: Bai Hanxiang x Wang Zhi ✔ 2. The Legend of the Mermaid: Jin Mudan x Crown Prince Long ✔ 3. Showbiz: Lin Yi x Mr. He ✔ 4. The Flame's Daughter: Jin Mo x Yu Zihan ✔ 5. The Great Conspiracy: Dugu Xin'nian x Yuwen Hu ✔ 6. New Summer's Desire: Xia Xi x Ou Chen ✔ 7. Thai drama Love Destiny: x Det ✔ 8. Love O2O: x Xiao Nai, side pairing x KO ✔ 9. The Destiny of White Snake: x Zi Xuan/Xu Xuan ✔ 10. Ashes of Love: x Runyu ✔ 11. Pediatr
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Shock! The Regent She Killed Has Been Reborn Too 惊！被她害死的摄政王也重生了
Signed for print publication. Dual rebirth for the male and female leads, face-slapping, rekindled love, one-on-one romance, traditional household intrigue, devoted husband, rebirth, satisfying read. A comic adaptation and short drama of the same name are now available. Shen Ning, the legitimate daughter of the General's Mansion, only learned before her death that the elder sister she had trusted for half her life was an impostor. Her elder sister seemed gentle, but she stopped at nothing to get
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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
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After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Won Over the Treacherous Chief Minister 穿书后，我攻略了奸臣首辅
[Farming + Transmigrate into a Book + Sweet Romance] Witty, scheming girl vs. lovesick, obsessive powerbroker Xin Yueying transmigrates into a book, landing in an old-fashioned, preachy novel as the wicked wife of the deranged, obsessive second male lead. Shen Qingqi is the novel’s deranged, villainous male character. Born into a family of famed generals, he was imprisoned alongside the Shen family after his father offended powerful nobles. He suffered terribly in prison and was left with crippl
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Spring's Joy, Year After Year 岁岁春欢
[The print edition of Years of Spring Joy is now available on all platforms] [Heroine and scumbag reborn + male lead transmigrates + mutual salvation + play the pig to eat the tiger] At seventeen, Shen Jiasui married Lu Yunzheng. The Shen and Lu families were both military dynasties, making them a formidable match. Two years into their marriage, Lu Yunzheng defeated the enemy kingdom and won renown across the land. But the Shen family was condemned for treason and executed to the last member. On
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Climbing the Social Ladder 攀高枝
[Film and TV rights sold] [Print edition published] Zhang Zhixu had everything from birth. A family with a century of prestige, enviable talent, and a career that kept rising step by step. But he found life terribly dull. Then, one day, an accident struck, and his soul entered a woman's body. A woman who couldn't read a single character, yet dreamed of marrying into a powerful family and becoming a phoenix. · Chen Baoxiang had traveled a thousand miles from the countryside to the capital, hoping
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The Night Before My Ungrateful Sister Entered the Palace, the Favored Consort Was Reborn 白眼狼妹妹进宫前夜，宠妃重生了
[A spoiled, sweetly obedient favorite consort VS a gentle, jade-like emperor who's sweet on the outside and ruthless within (they are not each other's first, but he dotes on her exclusively from the beginning to the end)] Jiang Shuyi's life as a favorite consort went smoothly for fifteen years. The emperor was gentle and benevolent, doting on her without restraint, and not a single woman in the harem dared challenge her. But she was blind to her own sister's treachery. In the end, her closest
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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 Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Villain Arrives to Restore Her Father’s Palace to Glory 三岁半反派驾到带爹重整王府荣耀
[Adored by everyone + feel-good power fantasy + gloomy antagonist gets remade into a doting dad + daughter sweet-talks her villain father into spoiling her + female supporting character has a System] Wen Ruan was an evil villain who dreamed of ruling the world. The good news: she transmigrated as the three-and-a-half-year-old biological daughter of Qin Jiuzhou, the ultimate villain. The bad news: she’d landed in the epilogue, where the gloomy villain who could crush the heavens and earth had los
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After Witnessing a Psycho Bury a Body, I Became a Grave Digger 撞见疯批埋尸后我成了埋尸工
Tang Suian stares at the bloodstained shovel beneath the moonlight, her knees trembling. One moment, she was up all night working on a proposal. The next, she saw the book's deranged villain digging a grave in the middle of nowhere! He tosses the body into the pit, then looks back at her with a gaze that seems to say she's next. Tang Suian's survival instinct kicks in. She snatches the shovel from the madman's hands. “Boss, take a break. I'll bury her for you. I promise I'll do it quickly and pr
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Oh No! The Servant I Bullied Is the Future Dragon-Ao Protagonist 糟糕！我欺负的杂役是未来龙傲天
[Tsundere sweetness x deadpan cuteness, main story and bonus chapters complete] Hating Lin Huan was as easy as breathing for Mu Yaoguang. When the on-screen comments appeared, she discovered that the Lin Huan she had bullied all along was actually the legendary, all-conquering Dragon Aotian. Not only did she need to apologize and suck up to him now, she would also have to rely on him in the future. So, like every villainess, after testing the waters in every way, she chose to be a woman who c
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The Powerful Minister’s Daily Question: Is Sister-in-Law Dead Yet? 权臣每日一问：嫂嫂死了吗
[Transmigration + Younger Brother Steals His Elder Brother’s Wife + The Powerful Bow Their Heads + Later They Fight Over Her + Mutual First Love] A royal decree arranging her marriage forces Ning Yu, who has transmigrated into this world, to wed the heir of the Xie family, whose fate on the battlefield is unknown. The marriage is meant to bring him good luck. When word arrives that the heir has died in battle, she goes to a temple to pray for her late husband and enjoy some peace and quiet, only
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The Pure-Hearted Dragon-Ao Can't Stop Clinging to Me 纯情龙傲天赖上我
[Transmigrates with her body + Pure Romance, 1v1 + Love-at-first-sight male lead x scheming female lead + Fantasy adventure] Jiang Yi transmigrated, body and all. The good news: she landed right on top of a local. The bad news: she knocked him unconscious and gave him amnesia. But there was one piece of good news and bad news: this local seemed to be the protagonist of this world, and Jiang Yi found clues on him that might lead her back to the modern world. That made things easy. She just had to
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Taming a Husband? The One I Tamed Is a Thousand-Year-Old Giant Black Snake! 驭夫？我驭的是条千年大黑蛇！
Zhu Ying transmigrated into a book and landed right in the middle of a climactic battle: the protagonists were fighting the ultimate villain to the death. The villain died, and so did the entire protagonist group. Standing atop countless corpses, she was the sole survivor. No, there was one other: a young demon spirit. She thought the boy might not be too bright. All it took was her saying, “I'll protect you,” for him to face countless demon spirits alone. They devoured his flesh and tore his bo
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After I Turned the Purehearted Heir into a Cruel Madman 把纯良世子折辱成狠辣疯批后
Chu Lanxin transmigrates into the body of a beautiful, sickly princess, a cannon-fodder supporting character in a male-centered novel. The original male lead, Pei Yuan, is framed by a tyrant and humiliated by a wicked consort. After enduring a hellish ordeal, he becomes a peerless expert, leads an army into the imperial palace, and grinds all his enemies to dust. Chu Lanxin looks at the male lead, lying on the ground and covered in wounds, then smiles and presses her foot against his chest. “Lit
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Spring Banquet 春日宴
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
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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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From the Start, I Married a Princess, and I Only Want Her 开局迎娶公主，我只要她一人
He was the most inconspicuous son of the Grand General's household; she was the almost invisible Fifth Princess in the palace. Three years ago, one brief glimpse left him lovesick. He went to the battlefield for her, building up the standing he would need to marry her. Three years later, he was made a marquis for his unparalleled military achievements. At the victory banquet, he knelt and begged for imperial favor: “I offer all my military honors as the betrothal gift. In this life, I ask only f
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Her Ex-Husband Became Emperor, and She Was Forced to Divorce Him 前夫君登基为帝，她被逼和离
Soft on the outside, tough on the inside, a little bitter flower VS a mad dog of an emperor? Six years after their divorce, Sheng Wu’s former husband ascended the throne. The day the news reached her second husband’s family, her mother-in-law forced a divorce agreement into her hands. She said that Sheng Wu had once been the new emperor’s first wife, and the Jiang family dared not keep her. Sheng Wu thought her mother-in-law was worrying far too much! After their divorce, he married the woman he
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The Empress Is So Charming, His Majesty Is Reborn to Bend Over Backward for Her 娘娘多娇，陛下重生为其弯眉折腰
He abused her, hurt her, and kept her imprisoned. When she had lost all hope, she resolved to take revenge on him... Didn’t he want her heart? Then she would give it to him! That day, she stood amid a sea of flames, beautiful and tragic, utterly resolute... “Your Majesty, these are all things you taught me. When facing someone vastly stronger than you, the best way to lie low is to disguise yourself and act obedient. To defeat someone, first attack their heart. The greatest revenge on an enemy i
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The Empress Refuses Love, While the Tyrant Goes Mad and Turns to the Dark Side 娘娘不入爱河，暴君疯批入魔
[One-on-one romance, devoted couple + palace intrigue + regretful pursuit, clear-headed heroine, everyone's unattainable ideal] Meng Tang is a gracious, gentle empress who never competes for favor. Everyone thinks she is a true white lotus standing tall in the harem, and even the tyrant believes it. He takes a new concubine, and she smiles, congratulates him, and arranges for the newcomer to spend the night with him. He sends her restorative medicine, and she obediently takes it, knowing full we
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Reborn, the Emperor Personally Teaches His Consort the Art of Harem Warfare 重生后，陛下手把手教娘娘宫斗
“Your Majesty, if there is another life, I hope never to have known you, and never to meet you again in any lifetime.” Yujing Chen detested her. Yet the last thing she did before dying was take the fatal sword strike for him. She said, “Your Majesty, could my life leave a vivid mark in your heart?” Perhaps Heaven believed his task was unfinished and granted him a new life. After being reborn... he discovered that she had once been bright and beautiful, too... [No System + No transmigration + Mal
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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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Hooked on Acting Obedient, the Regent Begs for My Kisses Every Night 装乖上瘾，摄政王夜夜索吻求我疼
The rating just opened and will rise [Possessive to the extreme | Two schemers pretending to be mad | Reborn revenge | Explosive sexual tension] [Powerful man lowering his head, possessive and obsessive, brooding regent] VS [Face of a goddess, heart of a snake, wicked woman who trains men like dogs] On the first day after being reborn, Guan Nanyin booked Chunfeng House’s top courtesan. In her previous life, her husband had brought his widowed sister-in-law into the manor and personally cared for
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I Became the Abused Heroine’s Sister, So I Taught Her to Tear Her Scumbag Ex Apart 穿成虐文女主姐姐，教她手撕渣男
[Transmigrate into a book + System + sweet romance + breathtaking beauty + devoted love + half-demon + punishing scumbags + overpowered] Mu Liruo transmigrated into a book one day. The good news was that she became the female lead’s sister, and the two were extremely close. The bad news was that the female lead was in an angsty romance. Her mission was to help the female lead stay away from the male lead and turn the angsty romance into a sweet one. After taking in the plot, Mu Liruo had just on
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I Became the Emperor’s Tutor, and the Tyrant Can Hear My Thoughts 穿成帝师后，被暴君读心声了
[The rating is low because few people have read it. It'll go up!] [Female Imperial Tutor disguised as a man, cool-headed on the outside but ruthless within * seemingly innocent wolf cub male lead] [One devoted couple, younger man/older woman, mind-reading, System, light nation-building] After dying suddenly, Yun Qing transmigrated into the Great Xi dynasty she had been researching, becoming the late Imperial Tutor of the young, fearsome Emperor Xie Rang. She meant to run away and avoid trouble,
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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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The Years of the Cousin and the Coldhearted Young Lord 表姑娘和清冷世子的那些年
Timid, sincere cousin & cool, restrained young lord A devoted, sugary romance, with a completely traditional setting, an older man raising the heroine, a high-and-mighty beauty brought down from her pedestal, and the heroine's growth When Hu Qingjia first arrives at the Jinghai Marquis Manor as a young cousin, she is cautious at every turn, always on edge and never daring to overstep in the slightest. But as she spends her days with the family, she discovers that the Jinghai Marquis Manor is ac
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