The Female Lead Rules the World: Emperor's Record 女主天下-帝王录

1. 1 我 I’ll Be Empress! Who’s Against It, and Who’s in Favor? 我要当女帝，谁反对，谁赞成？ Hate Summer讨厌夏天No CP5.1M WordsCompleted Transmigrate to a fictional world and live honestly as a dainty young lady? Congratulations, you have a 99% chance of being promised to the village butcher. Make your own way and earn a fortune like crazy, becoming a rich heiress? Congratulations, you have a 99% chance of becoming the county magistrate's thirteenth concubine. Be beautiful and work hard to become an imperial consort? How is that any different from the first two? I can fight, I'm not afraid to die, I'm crazy, I want to become an e 19.9kFavorites42.1kClicks/ch40.6kGifts

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2. 2 开 The Founding Empress's Chronicles 开国女帝记事 Shuixin Qingmei水心清湄Romance657k WordsCompleted As the title says, Yao Jing transmigrates to the chaotic final years of Qi, builds up an army, and fights to rule the land. 1. The female lead is incredibly strong! 2. As is customary in a story about vying for supremacy, the protagonist wins! I've drawn a map of the territory. Please ignore the modern-day geography of our country. It only shows the outline of the ancient territory, and the landforms are completely different. I'm terrible at drawing, so as long as it's legible, it'll do~~~ Fin 15.9kFavorites52.8kClicks/ch7.7kGifts

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3. 3 天 Destined to Rule 天命为皇 Yan Ke燕柯Romance1.1M WordsCompleted I am the Son of Heaven. I am Heaven's will. In the ninth year of Tianqi under the Jin dynasty, the young emperor was still a child. His maternal relatives held power, powerful ministers rose on every side, and people across the land took up arms in revolt. Foreign enemies ravaged the borders, while the imperial clan remained lost in wine and pleasure. The Jin dynasty teetered on the brink... In the Jin Mountains, a woman general of the Yao clan raised a rebellion. She quelled civil strife, repe 12.9kFavorites44.8kClicks/ch22.5kGifts

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4. 4 渣 The Scummy Emperor Crushes the World 渣皇他碾压世界 Meng Ruoyun梦若云Romance428k WordsCompleted Lin Yuan transmigrated into the body of Lin Yuan, the crown prince of an alternate dynasty, and brought along the “Emperor Simulator” game System. With the ability to reload a save, Lin Yuan discovered that this was a world where everything had been thrown together, and embarked on a delightful path of courting disaster, charging ahead without restraint. “The emperor governs and treats people with ‘benevolence.’ What is ‘benevolence’? It means telling you as I crush you.” [Reader’s Guide] 1. Th 11.2kFavorites42.1kClicks/ch8.3kGifts

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5. 5 主 The Master Doesn't Want to Talk (Quick Transmigration) 主公不想说话（快穿） Until the End of the World直到世界尽头No CP695k WordsCompleted Warnings: This is an extremely long work. It is melodramatic, disjointed, and has gaps in the story. Check the table of contents before deciding whether to continue. Enter at your own risk, enter at your own risk, enter at your own risk (important things are said three times). Runs away with a wok lid over my head.jpg 1. A woman transmigrates into a man. No CP, just brotherly affection. 2. Incomplete, with abrupt breaks in the story; the continuation comes later. If you dislike that, please th 6.1kFavorites19kClicks/ch2.1kGifts

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6. 6 女 Empress [Alien Star] 女帝[异星] Xi Zhu夕诛Romance477k WordsCompleted 2.7kFavorites13.2kClicks/ch373Gifts

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7. 7 凌 [Three Kingdoms] Ambition Above the Clouds [三国]凌云志 Xiao Mu萧睦No CP710k WordsOngoing Synopsis: Xiao Ling has always been ruthless in everything she does, ruthless to others and even more ruthless to herself. Even after being reborn into an era when people could barely survive, she still kept that ruthlessness hidden within her. Oh, right, that era was the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The war-torn late Han was the most dazzling of eras. Heroes, fierce generals, capable ministers, renowned scholars... they shone across the sky of history. In the first year of Chuping, she was sixtee 1.4kFavorites1.9kClicks/ch1.6kGifts

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8. 8 谋 [Three Kingdoms] Can Strategists Not Ascend the Throne? [三国]谋士不可以登基吗？ River Wind a Thousand Miles Away千里江风No CP2.9M WordsCompleted [Three Kingdoms power struggle. The heroine isn't a strategist, she's a ruler.] [Complete. Anti-piracy measures cover 50% of the text. The full story is being polished and proofread. I take no responsibility for pirated versions.] The seventh year of Guanghe. The Yellow Turban Rebellion. Qiao Yan is bound to Strategist System No. 068 and awakens in the body of a dying little girl amid the starving dead. The System tells her that her goal is to become the greatest strategist under heaven. Sitting 189.2kFavorites328.2kClicks/ch829.9kGifts

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   It's a good read, a fairly well-structured plot-driven story about building up resources and ascending to the throne. Unfortunately, I haven't finished it yet. [Doge emoji with rose in hand]

9. 9 大 [Tang Dynasty] Chang'an of the Great Tang [唐]大唐长安 Gold and Jade Fill the Courtyard金玉满庭Romance1.1M WordsCompleted When Li Chang’an opened her eyes again, she was in the Tang Dynasty. The good news: It was the Kaiyuan era, the golden age of the Tang, and she was a daughter of Emperor Xuanzong. The bad news: The An Lushan Rebellion was just around the corner, and her father disliked her so much he wouldn’t even give her a princess’s title and made her become a Taoist nun. Princess Shou’an was born to Cao Yena Ji. She was born in the ninth month of pregnancy. The emperor hated her and ordered her to be dress 175.8kFavorites238.2kClicks/ch656.8kGifts

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   It's great! I've finished watching it. The female lead is adorable with everyone, hehe, and in the end, she even becomes emperor! [Milk tea emoji]

10. 10 二 Half a Spoiler 二分之一剧透 Tianze Shiruò天泽时若Romance657k WordsCompleted As a game addict who transmigrated into a game, Wen Yanran has a unique advantage that countless other transmigrators lack. First, she starts at the top: she’s the emperor from the start. Second, she comes with a game-assistance System, a standard feature for any protagonist. * Just as Wen Yanran was fretting over her ability to manage a large team, the World Will that had helped her transmigrate offered a friendly reminder: to prevent the current world from restarting over and over, the transmi 164.9kFavorites283kClicks/ch317.8kGifts

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    It's good, but I didn't finish it [doge emoji] (I realized I have so little patience, I kept getting distracted while trying to keep up with the updates).

11. 11 定 [Wu Zhou] Founding the Dynasty [武周]定鼎 River Wind a Thousand Miles Away千里江风Romance2.1M WordsCompleted [Current arc: Wu Zhou] Wu Qingyue never imagined that one moment she’d be grabbing her keyboard to argue with someone that the claim Empress Zhaoyi had murdered her daughter was complete nonsense, and the next she’d be reborn as Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of Tang’s third daughter. In other words... the daughter of Wu Zetian who died before her first birthday. [Good news: You come with a System.] [Bad news: The System has just one function: convert 153.4kFavorites216.6kClicks/ch503kGifts

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12. 12 天 Fate Is on My Side 天命在我 An Bai桉柏Romance1.6M WordsOngoing [Editing mode: in progress] [Don’t mention other people’s stories in my comments, and don’t mention my story in other people’s comments.] “My name is Shang Min, descendant of King Wu. If I ascend to the throne of the Human Emperor, I will uphold Heaven’s mandate and the people’s will, pacify the foreign tribes across the four seas, suppress the demons of this world, restore an age of peace and prosperity, renew the fortunes of our human race, and preserve its lineage.” The emperor is incompe 128kFavorites123.6kClicks/ch250.8kGifts

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13. 13 穿 I Transmigrated as Emperor Huizong's Princess 穿越成宋徽宗公主 Vastness of the Underworld蒿里茫茫Romance3.0M WordsCompleted Zhao Luming thought the perfect heroine’s story would go like this: She’d be reborn as a princess, adored by the emperor and cherished by her brothers, clever, charming, and beautiful, with a host of handsome young men from the greatest aristocratic families in love with her. Then she’d embark on a thrilling, eventful life. The story Zhao Luming actually got was: Everything above was true, except the emperor was Emperor Huizong of Song, her brothers were Emperor Qinzong and Wanyan Gou, and the 115.4kFavorites112kClicks/ch1.1MGifts

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14. 14 我 [Three Kingdoms] I Can Command the Wind and Rain [三国]我，呼风唤雨 Gold and Jade Fill the Courtyard金玉满庭Romance818k WordsCompleted She’s in the chaotic Three Kingdoms era, but she’s a goddess. Things seem pretty good from the start… Wait, which faction’s goddess is she, exactly? Chen Zhao stared at the people in front of her, all wearing yellow turbans and charging forward as they shouted, “The Azure Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall rise! In the year of Jiazi, good fortune shall reign!” She fell silent. So… she was a rebel? Chen Zhao rolled up her sleeves. Since she was here, what else could she do but make the b 101.6kFavorites108.6kClicks/ch525.2kGifts

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15. 15 女 Disguised as a Man, I Got the Script to Claim the Throne (Imperial Exams) 女扮男装我拿到登基剧本（科举） Half a Water Bottle半个水瓶Romance705k WordsCompleted Your throne? No! It’s mine! He Yun Zhao was grateful countless times that, after she transmigrated, her parents disguised her as a boy. On the day she came first in the imperial examinations, the legitimate eldest son of the Xiao family burst into her hot spring bath, covered in wounds! Only after burying him did she suddenly recall that the scene seemed familiar. She had transmigrated into a book! The man she’d buried was the male lead of the novel. He was the emperor’s illegitimate son and 61.1kFavorites66.3kClicks/ch111.3kGifts

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    Super good! The lonely heroine ascends to the supreme throne, reminiscing about the deceased hero who helped her ascend to the throne. [Doge head with rose in hand][doge head with rose in hand]

16. 16 女 The Empress's Conquest Game 女帝游戏攻略 Snow Crow雪鸦Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Jiang Qingshu is a player of romance games. In the game, she is an empress who starts collecting lovers throughout the court to keep her dynasty from falling. Men everywhere compete for her favor. The innocent, lively young man, the gentle and considerate noble scion, the clever and perceptive regent, the iron-blooded general who makes ruthless decisions… She has them all wrapped around her finger. “What? You want to know if I love you?” “Of course I do.” “What? You want to know why I’m confi 48.6kFavorites54.3kClicks/ch63.1kGifts

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17. 17 带 Building the Tang Dynasty with Players 带着玩家在大唐搞基建的日子 Yi Qingruo衣青箬No CP1.8M WordsCompleted (Coming soon: Wasteland Shelter Upgrade Log. In the fourteenth year of the Tianbao era under Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the An Lushan Rebellion broke out. By imperial decree, the Anxi Protectorate General's Office, at the far western edge of the Tang Empire, established the Anxi Field Headquarters and marched into the Central Plains to suppress the rebellion. Who could have expected that Tibet would seize the opportunity to invade, occupy Longyou and Hexi, and cu 41.8kFavorites51.7kClicks/ch84.1kGifts

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18. 18 朕 I, the Emperor, Am an Otome Game and a City-Building Simulator 朕，乙游，但基建模拟器 Milk Tea Jellyfish奶昔水母Romance673k WordsOngoing [Keywords: System / infrastructure development / What have I done wrong?] The new dynasty has been established, and everything is waiting to be rebuilt. Chu Yingzhao, who was ready to enjoy a fully immersive otome romance game, opened the System interface, intending to admire the five male leads in all their glorious beauty. ...Then she was shocked to discover that the country she had just inherited was running a budget deficit, swarming with refugees, and mired in a terrible political climate. 38kFavorites32.4kClicks/ch44kGifts

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19. 19 穿 Since I’ve Traveled Here, I Might as Well Become an Empress! 穿都穿了，肯定当女帝啊！ Moon Beneath the Nine Provinces九州月下Romance873k WordsCompleted After the college entrance exams, Lin Ruo and her classmates visited the newly opened “Former Residence of Emperor Yongwu Scenic Area” near their school. She got lost in a small wooded area and met a handsome, gentle young man in plain clothes. Right in front of her, he shot a ferocious tiger and saved her life. Lin Ruo was trying to figure out how to use the emergency protocols to prove the young man was innocent of killing a Class I protected animal when she realized she had transmigrated. And 35.5kFavorites38.7kClicks/ch66.5kGifts

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20. 20 穿 It's So Hard Being Reborn as Lu Bu's Daughter [Three Kingdoms] 穿成吕布女儿的我太难了[三国] Carp Riding the Moon鲤乘月Romance1.1M WordsOngoing Question: What's it like to transmigrate to the late Eastern Han? Lv Zhao: Thanks for the invite. I'm in Chang'an. I only just remembered my memories from my previous life. This is embarrassing, and there are too many people I know, so I'll stay anonymous. The good news is, I have plenty to eat and wear, and my family has a little influence; The bad news is, most of my cheat abilities have been disabled. All I can still use is a city-building simulator with a gacha pool that has no pity system, 23.1kFavorites63.4kClicks/ch39.9kGifts

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21. 21 女 [Three Kingdoms] I’ll Be the Empress [三国]女帝我来当 Dinosaur Flower恐龙花Romance908k WordsCompleted Complete, with bonus chapters still updating... [Female-led power struggle] [A parallel world made up on the fly] The fifth year of the Xiping era. Yang Qiu was reborn as a child in a peasant family at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty. Then she started gathering pigweed and raising pigs, working the fields and pulling weeds, pounding grain to remove the husks, hauling manure to fertilize the land... If you’re asking about Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Cao Cao, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, and the rest... T 19.3kFavorites22.7kClicks/ch19.3kGifts

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22. 22 亡 The Fallen Kingdom System: Turning the Tide 亡国系统，力挽狂澜 A Lan Cai阿兰菜No CP339k WordsCompleted [Inline comments are now enabled, with no restrictions. Coming soon: I Conquer the World by Grinding Away at a Game. Please add it to your reading list~] The cover uses an authorized template. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Blurb: [I Build a Golden Age with the Fallen Nation System] In the thirtieth year of Pingkang, three years of drought have brought no rain. In the seventeenth year since Xu Ying transmigrated, she faces the threat of being sacrificed. Just then, a Fallen Nation Syste 19kFavorites36.1kClicks/ch6.7kGifts

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23. 23 在 Becoming an Empress in a World of Love-Struck Fools 在恋爱脑的世界做女帝 Orange Juice Thanks橙汁感谢No CP791k WordsCompleted A lighthearted, comedic-style light novel set in an alternate history! Announcement: Joining the paid chapters on January 27, 2023. After that, I'll be posting ten thousand words a day! The blurb begins below! After transmigrating into a princess adored by the emperor in a prosperous dynasty, Shen Y Yao initially thinks she's landed a story where she can coast to victory. Then she discovers she's surrounded by a bunch of hopeless romantics. Her mother, the Noble Consor 14.1kFavorites25.8kClicks/ch14.6kGifts

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24. 24 朕 I Became an Emperor for the Ages Thanks to the System’s Gossip Feed 朕靠吃瓜系统成为千古一帝 Shi Lian Shuanghuang识怜霜煌Romance711k WordsOngoing Zheng Hanzhang, who was preparing for the civil service exam, suddenly transmigrates into the body of the seventh prince, a royal born to the empress and raised above all others. However, the seventh prince is actually the seventh princess. The empress has no sons, so she raises her daughter as a boy. Every day, she has to live in fear, terrified that her identity will be exposed and bring her to ruin. Luckily, transmigration comes wi 10.3kFavorites2.7kClicks/ch3.8kGifts

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25. 25 文 Civilization Begins with Fire by Friction [World-Building] 文明从钻木取火开始[基建] Bright Moon over the Terrace明台月Romance468k WordsOngoing [Coming soon: "About How I Cross-Dressed in Another World to Scam the Top Donor", danmei. Beware of livestream scams in another world.] [Coming soon: "The Sorrows of the Mortal Realm", traditional female-led xianxia.] [Coming soon: "The Dragon King’s Mother-in-Law Is Three Thousand Years Old"] . Ian, a player in a civilization simulator, transmigrated to another world and became a god. First, she was hung up on the sun for three hundred years. After driving generations of priests mad with her en 3.7kFavorites2.2kClicks/ch4.1kGifts

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26. 26 朝 [Dream of the Red Chamber] Princess Chaoyang [红楼]朝阳公主 As If an Old Friend Had Returned恰似故人来Romance177k WordsOngoing Seeking follows for my upcoming works: Dream of the Red Chamber: A Powerful Minister, Qing Transmigration: Consort Yi, Favorite of the Six Palaces, and The Eunuch's Tender Devotion~~ Here is this novel's blurb: As the Great Qi emperor's only daughter, Qi Yaoguang has had everything since the day she was born. Endless wealth, supreme favor, and a level of doting that would make anyone green with envy. “Whoever dares to provoke you, no matter how blind they are, just beat them to death. Your f 2.1kFavorites3.6kClicks/ch843Gifts

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