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I'm Crowning Myself Empress Today
Female-lead power struggles
Keeping All the Good Ones
Stories from the Emperor's Point of View
The Many Facets of Women
Great reads with all kinds of heroines and female supporting characters, worth coming back to again and again. Jinjiang has been ruthlessly purging stories about women, so after finishing the older ones, I stopped updating this list.
Personal Archive of Dropped Stories
Three stars by default. 1/2: hard to get through. 3: nothing special, but not bad enough to drop. 4/5: personal reasons, friends' warnings, or I forgot why I didn't finish.
What Should I Call This?
I have a habit of forgetting a book as soon as I finish it, so whenever someone asks for recommendations, I can never think of any. Not anymore! I'm adding the books I love here and recommending them like crazy!
Stories Centered on Women
Stories centered on women’s lives. They may be sweet or bitter, but they’re all told from a woman’s perspective.
Books Auntie Thinks Are Worth Reading
I’m an auntie who’s read countless novels and has picky tastes. These are my favorites. I lean toward stories about running businesses, career pursuits, pure romance, and no-CP. No formulaic or simplistic stories, please.
Reading List for Recommending Powerful Female-Lead Stories
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A must-eat list for chaotic, omnivorous readers with big heads, little heads, and rabbit heads all in one.
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A Grand Collection of Historical Derivatives
Keeping Track of Recent Favorites
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Want to Read, But Don't Want to Read
M’s Collection (Unsorted C)
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Romance, Version 1.0
Sound Logic and Charismatic Protagonists
Good Reads of Every Type: No Danmei
The Female Lead Is Number One (No Modern Romance)
Gloomy Men, Fanfic, All
I Read Everything
A bit of everything (no CP, danmei, straight romance, yuri). I think they're pretty good.
I Love Logic, Serious Drama, and Mystery
A list to encourage people to study, study, study.
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Xiangxiang, where are you? Please listen to me, you've fallen from grace! You haven't updated in two years! Even the donkeys in the production team don't rest like that. You were once the invincible Xiangxiang, working tirelessly day and night, like a high-speed train carrying two articles simultaneously. (Tears welling up, choked with emotion)
I hate you, author! After reading "Buying Life", I can't read any other novels about female emperors vying for supremacy anymore. 😭 This one is so well-written that I can't read any other novels. I've already read it twice. How can you write something so good!
I'm looking forward to Xiangda's return to writing soon, and I'd also appreciate a new work in a different genre. I've been suffering from a reading slump lately, mostly reading male-oriented novels. Today, I went back to check out Jinjiang Literature City for good reads, but the homepage was still full of stories about doting wives or beautiful, fair-skinned heroines attracting male leads—so…
"I'm particularly dissatisfied with the fact that most supporting characters mindlessly follow the protagonist and their ideas." I wholeheartedly agree. The kind of writing Xiangxiang described always struck me as stiff and artificial, with the characters feeling too obviously like mere tools.
Fifth read finished! Help! After reading about buying back survivors, other base-building stories are just so boring, and they're full of bugs. Any recommendations?!
I stopped watching for two years after 90% of it, then binged it all in one go. I feel a sense of loss; when will I see season two?
I've never known the history of the late Ming Dynasty like this before, haha, thanks to Xiangtai for taking me on a tour of that chaotic era 🎉
When can we watch season two?
When will Buy Live 2 be available? 🙏🙏🙏
Is there any genius who can use AI to create a version of this novel? I really want to read it!!! So many TV dramas, movies, and comics these days have outrageous plots and promote distorted values; I'm exhausted from watching them all 😭😭😭