
The Palace Maid's Rise to Power
宫女上位记
Synopsis
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The Story of the Imperial Concubine's Ascension
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After Widowhood
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Mad Dog Daily Life
Young Master Yan Huan
The Queen Is Always Weak and Sickly
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Explore more →Romance
Includes female leads with no romance or male characters in the background, all-female-lead pairings, strong women, men getting hurt, male pregnancy, selfcest, palace intrigue, and traditional romance. Tastes vary, so think twice before saving the whole list.
Palace and Household Intrigue Stories
Historical romance is a genre I absolutely love. I read some of these as historical workplace stories, while others really make me ship the leads. I also don’t care whether the leads are virgins.
Palace-Intrigue Stories I've Read
Palace intrigue, with non-virgin leads.
Palace Intrigue
A collection of palace-intrigue stories told from the heroine's perspective. I'll also add quick transmigration worlds with similar plots. I prefer palace intrigue that takes itself somewhat seriously, so I don't read brainless, doting-on-one-person stories.
Novels I've Absolutely Loved in Recent Years!
Romance. Happy ending.
Romance I Enjoy
Showbiz and historical romance
Delicious Historical Romance
Palace intrigue, devoted love, the crematorium trope, and so on. The ratings are purely subjective. No content warnings, just a record. If I haven’t bought the complete novel, it means I skimmed it or didn’t buy the extras.
Read at Your Own Risk
Books with warnings, and books I dropped.
Ancient Romance Recommendations
So good, I love them. All rated four stars because five stars isn't allowed.
Ancient Transmigration: Palace Intrigue and Consort Novels
First divided into historical romances, reborn stories, and modern people transported to ancient times, then sorted by the female protagonists' backgrounds. I recommend reading it as an observer's account of the harem histories of all the consorts, including the female supporting characters. Please pay to support the official releases.
Some Palace Intrigue Stories
Some palace-intrigue novels I've finished. More precisely, stories where the male lead is an emperor, either from the beginning or later on.
Historical Romance and Palace Intrigue
Mostly palace-intrigue stories that I thought were pretty good after finishing them, though a few were just okay. (Saving these for reference. Reviews were written when moving books between shelves, and the ratings are still somewhat useful.)
My Complete Collection of Comfort Reads
I’m a Jinjiang omnivore: I ship BG, BL, and no-CP, anything goes! These are all hidden gems I’ve fully purchased, so enjoy with confidence~
Unputdownable Reads
Ones I like to read
Top Tier
Highlights
Historical Romance and Historical BL
For my own reference
Highly Recommended
Stories you can reread over and over
Palace Intrigue, Household Intrigue, Qing-Dynasty Transmigration, Rebirth and Transmigration
Like a historical-era palace harem promotion story. I read tons of these when I first got into historical romance! Stories with kind but strong female leads or tops who do whatever it takes to advance their own interests, and stories where the protagonist wins without lifting a finger.
Palace Intrigue
Some palace-intrigue stories I'm reading or have finished.
Palace Intrigue: Clear-Headed, Clever Heroines
The female lead has a mind of her own. The male lead has to fall first, though the female lead can take her time. I'm in a reading slump... Besides the new story The Stars in the House, are there any good palace-intrigue novels?
Historical BL (Rebirth, Transmigration, or Original Setting)
As the title says
Palace Intrigue
A consort who doesn't want to be empress isn't fit to be empress dowager
Completed Historical Romance
Completed historical romance novels. Don't take the ratings as a guide: half are personal favorites, and half are set by the System
Historical Romance, Historical RPF, and Classics
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Congratulations to Concubine Shu. Bai Yueguang designed the King of Yue to encourage his concubine to harm the Queen's child. The emperor ascended the throne and encouraged the king of Yue to kill all the people of the Luo family, leaving only a young brother. He designed Zhuo's side concubine to steal the queen's jade pendant. He pushed his concubine to fall into the water and gave birth to a disfigured sachet. He gave the emperor a disfigured sachet. He even broke into the delivery room when giving birth. He touched his face and wiped his tears. After his death, he was named Imperial Concubine Xi, and his daughter was named Princess Jing'an, who was equal to the emperor's sister. The heroine's daughter does not have this treatment. The heroine's son was named the imperial concubine instead of the queen after the queen's death and soon after her wedding. Oh, and the heroine's birthday is the same as yours. The emperor will definitely think of you.
This is the second time I read it. I actually really want to see Ayu and Concubine Shu fight in the palace. This way it can better reflect Ayu's specialness. Although I know that the emperor only liked Ayu in the article, but the favor after so many years still stopped me, and he died at that time.
After reading this, this Concubine Shu is so unfaithful and vicious, but the dog emperor knows it and still loves her so much. What the hell is true love if it isn't true?
Queen, you are confused. In your next life, you will be reincarnated into modern times. You will not seek wealth and wealth, but only love, hate, anger and ignorance. All will follow your own heart.
I saw a long review that carefully analyzed the emperor's love for Concubine Shu, and his various behaviors, treating Concubine Shu better than the heroine, which made me a little disgusted. I skipped it and went straight to the ending. I just watched the ending and felt that doting on Concubine Shu felt guilty to the King of Yue. Oh my God, I was so hesitant to go back and read it. Does anyone know whether the emperor loves Concubine Shu or not? I feel that Concubine Shu and Bai Yueguang are, it's disgusting.
This emperor really has the aura of an emperor. From his name to his behavior, the author describes it very vividly. The heroine was also described in a very three-dimensional way, and she didn't fall in love with the dog emperor in the end. It was my favorite. I watched it and came back to read it again [shy]
Except for Shu Fei's line, which is not very reasonable, they are all pretty good-looking. As for the extra story, the male protagonist was miserable when he was a child, so the King of Yue was nice to him. However, the King of Yue turned against him because of Concubine Shu, so he doted on Concubine Shu. How can I put it emm, it's disgusting and unreasonable. Pampering is enough. After the King of Yue died, he still doted on Concubine Shu. Didn't he have no problem with Concubine Shu? For example, if my best friend turns against me over a boy, it would be great if I can get along with that boy, and do I still love him?
It's good-looking. It can be said that the author has put some thought into Gong Douwen. It makes me feel different from others after reading it. The more I read it, the more I want to read it.
Your Majesty, Queen Yue Wang Shufei, it's so easy to catch a horse ah ah ah
"Because Zhang Fei had a miscarriage," this is a big bug for the author~ Did no one really see this sentence?