Strong Female Leads and Satisfying Stories 女强爽文

1. 1 女 A Woman Mogul's Guide to Rising to the Top 女枭上位手册 Yan Ju闫桔Romance595k WordsCompleted Chen Jiao transmigrates. She arrives in the darkest days at the end of a dynasty. The good news: She's in the south, where things are peaceful for now. The bad news: Her birth mother is a prostitute from the lowest social class. Hell mode from the start. A gang of thugs targets a widowed mother and her daughter, breaks into their home in the middle of the night, and attempts to assault them. Chen Jiao accidentally kills one of them and is charged with murder. The mother and daughter have no cho 68.3kFavorites70.8kClicks/ch56.6kGifts

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   Emperor!

2. 2 黑 The Dark Moonlight Only Wants Power 黑月光她只想夺权 Yuan Yu元余Romance739k WordsCompleted Shi Yuanxi has a terrible reputation in the capital. That is because she once resorted to every means at her disposal to arrange three marriages for herself. Determined to marry into a powerful family, she schemed and plotted from morning to night: first targeting a notorious playboy, then the heir to a prestigious marquis's estate, and finally nearly ensnaring a powerful court official. But the higher she climbed, the harder 77.7kFavorites96kClicks/ch130kGifts

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   Technology Seizes Power

3. 3 大 The Feisty Young Lady [The 1970s] 大小姐好凶[七零] Four Single Shop四单铺Romance845k WordsCompleted Liang Dalong, a powerful tycoon who rules Hong Kong City, faces a crisis with no heir. By chance, he learns that he has a granddaughter in mainland China. Twenty years ago, the Liang family's heiress eloped to the mainland and gave birth to a daughter. But she never knew that her child had been switched at birth with her cousin-in-law's daughter. * Liang Kefeng, a top-tier spy, transmigrates into the role of the cannon-fodder female lead's older female cousin. She comes to Hong Kong with her you 77.3kFavorites130.1kClicks/ch79.5kGifts

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   The female lead is a ruthless woman, and the male lead is a pretty boy.

4. 4 十 The Department Store Princess of the Nineteenth Century 十九世纪百货公主 Frozen Orange冻京橙Romance662k WordsCompleted Blurb: Dai Li transmigrated into a minor character in a classic Western novel. Nineteenth-century London, the golden age of the Victorian era. The surging steel tide of the Industrial Revolution had forged the world-famous metropolis of London. The West End was a paradise of glittering excess, while the East End was a hell of sweatshops. Dai Li's entire family was crammed into a narrow little house in the slums of East London. They scraped by on the income from half of a dilapidated general 76.6kFavorites90.5kClicks/ch144.5kGifts

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   The male lead has a lot of business knowledge; he's a cool, stubborn, and innocent girl; the female lead is a self-made woman.

5. 5 淘 Gold Rush in Russia [The Nineties] 淘金俄罗斯[九零] The Flute Player吹笛人Romance838k WordsCompleted Forced to play a poisonous adopted daughter in a period novel, He Changyi earns herself the title of “ungrateful little hooligan.” At the end, the puppet on a string jumps into a river and drowns herself. Luckily, the whole story ends before she actually drowns. She may be alive, but her money is dead (...) To save her wallet, He Changyi decides to become an idol. Scratch that: a black-market trader. The red giant in the north falls apart, the ruble turns into worthless paper, and order gives 48.4kFavorites60.8kClicks/ch103.8kGifts

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   Awesome! The male lead has a puppy, and all three dogs are incredibly adorable.

6. 6 五 Survival in Hong Kong's Wealthy Families in the 1950s 五零香江豪门生存法则 Old Monk Eats Vegetarian老衲吃素Romance902k WordsCompleted Su Wenxian transmigrates into the body of a girl living in a shantytown in 1950s Hong Kong. As soon as she arrives, her adoptive parents try to sell her off as a concubine! They’re brandishing a knife and forcing her to become one? Then they can all die together! Luckily, she is soon recognized by a wealthy family and brought back as their heiress. As soon as she returns to the family, she is told the so-called rules for surviving among the rich: First, speak less and observe more. Second, alwa 46.5kFavorites59.4kClicks/ch127.4kGifts

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   The male lead is very wealthy in the early stages, and the female lead is often implicitly considered his subordinate. Later on, they are simply equals. If you mind this, please proceed with caution.

7. 7 甜21+ Sweet Hunting Ground [GB] 甜蜜狩猎场[GB] Dao Xuan道玄Romance789k WordsCompleted 39.4kFavorites37.2kClicks/ch86.3kGifts

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   GB, awesome, but it doesn't suit my personal preferences [laughing and crying emoji]

8. 8 打 The Only Way to Beat an Older Man 打败年上男的唯一办法 Fish Swim in Spring鱼游春Romance690k WordsCompleted When a typhoon passes through, it leaves nothing standing. A long, long crush, officially sealed. Nurturing boyfriend x genius girl Blurb: On the day she started at G University, Ji Yuewei finally saw Liang Yusheng again after a long time without contact. With a cold expression, he took her suitcase from her. He still looked angry. A friend asked what the two of them were to each other. Liang Yusheng glanced at Ji Yuewei and said they were relatives. Ji Yuewei stubbornly corrected him: “He’s m 36.1kFavorites25.2kClicks/ch50.6kGifts

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   Genius girl x male mother

9. 9 她 She Is the Eye of the Storm 她是风暴中心 You You Po Ni油油泼泥Romance354k WordsCompleted My ongoing novel, also featuring a genius heroine: The Unwanted Second Child Upcoming historical wish-fulfillment novel: The Feudal Patriarch [Synopsis] The Tu family had hoped for a son after having a daughter first, but the child who came was a girl. Tu Mian was ordinary-looking, just like her mother. Tu Chenglin was even more disappointed. He did not know how to treat this new life. But Lin Mei treasured her daughter. It had not been easy for her to have a child, and she wanted her daught 35.6kFavorites49.1kClicks/ch18.8kGifts

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   Genius, no arguments allowed.

10. 10 娇 Can a Doting Wife Be Transformed into a Dragon-Proud Hero? 娇妻也能爆改龙傲天吗？ Oh, Right and Wrong是非非啊Romance2.8M WordsOngoing Lady Liu Jingjing's dream was to be a good wife and loving mother. That was until the man ascended to the upper realm and abandoned her. He said that once he had established himself in the upper realm, he would come back for her. But Liu Jingjing waited and waited, and the man never came. When she was finally at death's door, she received a letter calling off their engagement. Someone told her that the man had a bevy of women in the upper realm and would, at most, take her as a concubine. "No. 16.8kFavorites17.2kClicks/ch75.3kGifts

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    Phoenix Overlord, leveling-up story, NP-oriented

11. 11 我 I Conquered the Galaxy with the Loving Wife System 我用娇妻系统称霸星际 Mu Nian Zhi木念之Romance620k WordsCompleted Blurb: After her parents die one after another and her relatives seize her inheritance, Ai Fu is struggling to survive in the slums when a System suddenly appears. The System says: "You're actually the true daughter of a duke's family, switched at birth through malicious scheming. They'll come to take you home in a few days." "You have a fiancé: the Empire's Third Prince, and the chosen one of this world. He'll inherit the throne, unite the five planets, and become the supreme ruler of this 12.7kFavorites18kClicks/ch14.7kGifts

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    There's no romantic pairing, but the female lead is the heir, and the men are all very calculating and troublesome.

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