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Historical Romance for When You're in a Reading Slump (A Devoted Fan's Picks) 文荒可看的古言（忠实爱好者）

Books: 30
Follows: 5
Grade: Level B
Updated: 3mo ago

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I think these should be easy to get into. The four- and five-star ones are worth a try; think twice about the three-star ones.

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1 The Young Widow 小寡妇 Red Beans for Her红豆酬她Romance693k WordsCompleted 70.4kFavorites65.2kClicks/ch51.5kGifts
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Xiangxiang's writing
2 Bewitching Formation 迷魂阵 Mauve Mallow锦葵紫Romance266k WordsCompleted Shen Xiyin’s husband was gravely injured while killing an evil spirit, leaving him unable to father an heir. As the head of a sect, he did not want to leave his position without a successor, nor did he want anyone to learn of this secret that would damage his reputation. He wanted Shen Xiyin to put the greater good first and secretly conceive a child with another man, giving birth to his “heir.” To that end, he schemed to push Shen Xiyin into the Bewitching Array. There was another man inside 206kFavorites170.9kClicks/ch167.4kGifts
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It smells really good! [Laughing]
3 The Substitute Supporting Actress Sees the Comments 替身女配看见弹幕后 Day After Day日日复日日Romance317k WordsCompleted [The print edition is now available under the title Crossing Over Today. Follow @Jinjiang Rifu Ri for updates.] Nie Yinzhi's cultivation went awry, and she nearly suffered a cultivation deviation. After emerging from seclusion, she found that she could see captions floating above people's heads. From the comments, she learned that she was merely a substitute supporting character in a book. Everyone in her sect doted on her because her eyes looked just like those of the senior sister, their lo 185.3kFavorites337.9kClicks/ch51.3kGifts
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Not bad
4 Beneath the Locust Tree 槐树之下 Autumn Lamp in the Night Rain夜雨秋灯Romance463k WordsCompleted (This story has been contracted for publication. I posted two bonus chapters on Weibo, and the rest will probably only be available in the print edition.) Have you ever heard any ghost stories connected to locust trees? I have. They all happened back in the nineties. Even after I grew up and returned to my hometown, I could still find traces of the past beneath that tree, along with the shadow of that man. A note from the author: I'm not sure if writing this counts as breaking some kind of taboo 43.9kFavorites55kClicks/ch13.8kGifts
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I feel sorry for the female lead.
5 On the Sword 说剑 Snow on the Belt衣带雪Romance589k WordsCompleted 14.6kFavorites16kClicks/ch15.4kGifts
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It's just so-so.
6 One Lifetime, One World: A Beauty’s Bones 一生一世，美人骨 Mo Bao Fei Bao墨宝非宝Romance181k WordsCompleted A beauty's bones are a rare sight in this world. Those with bones lack the skin, and those with skin lack the bones. Most people have shallow eyes. They see only the skin, never the bones. How lucky would you be if, in today's world, someone who remembered two lifetimes loved you deeply? That was how Shi Yi felt about Zhou Sheng Chen. But he had long since forgotten her. "Life is but a dream. How much joy can it hold? Of all things, only Shi Yi is what I seek..." Theme: Long live China 239.9kFavorites389.5kClicks/ch28kGifts
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It's also at the level of a white moonlight.
7 The Secret Recipe 秘方 Eight Strips Watch the Snow八条看雪Romance1.6M WordsCompleted “I’ve never seen a truly secret remedy in my life. All I know is that the precious things in this world don’t always glitter or sit in exquisite, expensive containers. Licorice, saposhnikovia root, astragalus, atractylodes... They’re all ordinary things. But if they can heal the sick and save lives, they’re good medicine.” Qin Jiuyue has three priorities in life: Money, money, and more money. Li Qiao has three priorities in life, too: Stay alive, stay alive, and stay alive by any means necessar 55.3kFavorites17.8kClicks/ch34.3kGifts
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Not bad, not bad
8 After My Ex Cheated, My Ex-Husband and I Rekindled Our Love 被渣后和前夫破镜重圆了 Hua Qi画七Romance806k WordsCompleted At the end of this winter, Wen He’an lost her power, was stripped of her position, and exiled to the Ruins. Born into one of the most powerful families in the Celestial Capital, she had once been a figure who could shift the balance of power with a laugh. Everyone said her disgrace and loss of everything she had were all because of one thing: love. Wen He’an had once married someone else. He was peerless in family background, stre 249.8kFavorites317.3kClicks/ch381.2kGifts
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Good
9 Kill That White Moonlight 杀死那个白月光 Cup of Snow杯雪Romance386k WordsCompleted VIP status begins on the 6th. Thank you all for your support. Wen Deng is the eldest daughter of the Wen family. She suffers from a grave illness, and is not expected to live long. When she was seventeen, a young man broke into the Wen estate one night and fell in love with her at first sight. He brushed flowers from her path and brewed wine for her, bathed Qingcheng in blood for her, and knelt before the gods and Buddhas, chanting sutras for ten years. At twenty-seven, Wen Deng's body was br 121kFavorites93.6kClicks/ch27.8kGifts
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This life has been spent wandering for three hundred years, three hundred years, without returning home.
10 Blessings to My Cousin 表妹万福 Penglai Ke蓬莱客Romance510k WordsCompleted After a long dream, Zhen Jiafu met the man named Pei You'an once more at a crossroads in her life. She was born into a wealthy merchant family, and the road ahead seemed to be lined with shackles. As a young man, he had become famous throughout the capital for his talent. Later, he was cast out by his family, disgraced, and died in the frontier in the prime of his life. If life could begin again, may good fortune be with you, and may you enjoy lasting happiness. Theme: Make the most of ever 397.2kFavorites873kClicks/ch282.9kGifts
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It's alright.
11 The Right Way to Win Over a Black-Hearted Villain [Book Transmigration] 攻略白切黑反派的正确方式[穿书] Lying Down with Spring Tea躺春茶Romance414k WordsCompleted The two-volume print edition of "Jing Li" is now available. You can find "After I Played With and Abandoned the Pride of the Peaks" in the author's column for advance reservations. Blurb: After falling on hard times, the cannon-fodder Bai Li meets a gentle, powerful young man. Together, they escape with their lives. Only after they part does she learn that the boy who deceived her all along is the story's greatest villain, the target of her mission to win his heart: a big, 179.9kFavorites249.2kClicks/ch71.1kGifts
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Overall, it's pretty good. [Empty bowl]
12 When Water Meets 遇水 Little Changjin小长衿Romance348k WordsCompleted ■ Topic: Yushui ■ Publication rights signed. Updates on Weibo: Xiao Changjin Xing Shuisui transmigrated into a very weak peach-tree spirit. To save a friend, she followed Helian Sheng across countless mountains and rivers. She watched him mercilessly exorcise spirits, saw how fierce and cruel he could be, and was even dragged up a tree and tied there by the impatient man as he threatened her viciously: "Don't follow me." Someone so cold and unfeeling should have no warmth in him. From that day 49.6kFavorites37kClicks/ch13.5kGifts
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It's alright, the female lead is cute, and the male lead has a youthful vibe.
13 21+ Sheathing the Armor 解甲 Eight Strips Watch the Snow八条看雪Romance832k WordsCompleted 126.3kFavorites57.2kClicks/ch26.3kGifts
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Highly recommended
14 The Night Watch Keeps No Curfew, and the Long Night Has Yet to Dawn 金吾不禁，长夜未明 Yiren Kui Kui伊人睽睽Romance757k WordsCompleted Also known as The Female General's Dirty Love Story “On New Year's Eve in the eastern capital, the night curfew was lifted, and dawn seemed far away. Tens of thousands had been killed or wounded in distant Yizhou. I returned to the capital with a handful of surviving troops, just as the snow began to fall. Zhang Xingjian handed me a bowl of warm wine and told me I'd worked hard.” “I had never spoken to him, never even shown him a kind face. My younger sister was his fiancée. They were a perfec 92.2kFavorites125.4kClicks/ch63kGifts
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I finished reading it a long time ago, but I'm only commenting on it today. The author seems to prefer writing flawed characters (for example, the protagonists in "The Great Dream" are also imperfect). After all, no one is perfect, and the author doesn't portray the protagonists as inhuman or place them in a one-sided narrative. Everyone has their own shortcomings and flaws. Because of love, we are all trying to become better for each other. From childhood to adulthood, Xiao Wutong suffered too many grievances, misunderstandings, and injustices. Just as the moon said, no matter what she did, it seemed like she was wrong. No matter what she did, Wutong could not get good results. She felt that she was the one who did bad things, and she did good things but did not get thanks and was misunderstood. But the moon saw her. The moon was attracted to Wutong. He understood her helplessness and understood the misunderstandings that she never said (those things she took for granted). Wutong grew up and did not care anymore. The only thing that made her feel that she would not be blamed was that when she was a general, she was shining. The phoenix tree is attracted to the moon, but isn't the moon also attracted to the phoenix tree? The moon envies the phoenix tree's unrestrained and wild nature. From a young age, he was regarded as the one who would revive the family. He could not be unrestrained or speak or act inappropriately. He was regarded as the moon after the sun, shining brightly for the Zhang family. So the moon's meeting with the phoenix tree was fate. But loving the phoenix tree was the moon's uncontrollable yearning for freedom and unrestraint under countless internal struggles and rules and regulations. It was the heart's yearning, the heartbeat that was suppressed countless times. The tragedy that led to Rong Ge's relationship was caused by her parents' conservative thinking, her disappointing younger brother, the era's intolerance of women's identities, Li Lingge's ambition (which was not wrong), and Zhang Rong's inability to escape the nightmare about his parents that accompanied him throughout his life. Fortunately, in the "what if" scenario, they finally got a happy ending. It's alright, I'll give it a five-star review.
15 The Demon King's Repayment 妖王的报恩 Gong Xinwen龚心文Romance556k WordsCompleted [Print Edition] The print edition, retitled "Wolf Encounter", is now available on major platforms. See Weibo for details. [Blurb] The demon king, abandoned by everyone, was brought to a human’s lair, his heart full of humiliation and resentment. “Wretched humans! I am a great demon. How could I ever serve a human?” “Shameless human! How dare you touch my tail? Once I regain my demon powers, I’ll tear you to shreds.” But the woman took him in for several days, fed him delicious food, smoothed 290.2kFavorites574kClicks/ch276.8kGifts
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This is one of my old "white moonlight" stories.
16 My Dangerous Wife 我的危险夫人 Returning Mountain Jade归山玉Romance218k WordsCompleted - Among the three Kunlun Mountains, Yunshan Sect Master Song Jixue defies the objections of the entire immortal sect community and marries a woman with a crippled spiritual meridian. In their third year of marriage, the Gate of Earthly Ghosts opens and myriad demons emerge. Lord Yunshan descends the mountain to rescue his dying disciple, only to learn from him that his own wife is one of the demon kings wreaking havoc in the mortal world. Song Jixue does not waver. But more and more evidence p 286.4kFavorites333.2kClicks/ch90.4kGifts
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It's alright. To be honest, I don't think it's as amazing as the pictures I saw online, but it's still pretty good.
17 My King's Bride 吾王的新娘 Gardenia山栀子Romance447k WordsCompleted After transferring schools, Chu Yuan went sightseeing at the ruins of Guyandu. Among a pile of rubble outside the old city wall, she picked up a faded photograph. The young man in the photo wore a black-and-gold dragon robe. His long, elegant fingers lifted the beads of his crown, and his beautiful eyes gleamed with a sharp, sinister light. On the back of the photograph was a date: the fifteenth day of the eighth month, third year of 32.2kFavorites60.1kClicks/ch11.7kGifts
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Overall, it's pretty good.
18 Notes on Watching Cranes 观鹤笔记 Her and the Lamp她与灯Romance566k WordsCompleted [Main story complete. Taking a few days off before posting the bonus chapters.] [Coming soon: The Lady Buddha and Letters to a Rose. Please add them to your reading list.] [Blurb] Deng Ying in history was convicted and died by lingchi, the slow slicing execution. Even after his death, Grand Secretary Yang Lun personally inscribed the words “Pure and Clean” for him. Yang Wan, who lives in the twenty-first century, has spent ten years studying Deng Ying, poring over every detail of his life. Ten 520.5kFavorites495.9kClicks/ch359.4kGifts
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"I peek at the wounded crane through the window, just as I look up and see the spring terrace."
19 After Destroying the Heavenly Dao, I Became My Archrival's Junior Sister 灭了天道后我成了死对头的师妹 Returning Mountain Jade归山玉Romance448k WordsCompleted Before Ling Luo fell to the demonic path, her talent for swordsmanship had swept the entire cultivation world. Then someone came out of nowhere and stunned the world with a single sword strike, taking away her title as the strongest swordsman. After Ling Luo fell to the demonic path, the person she wanted to kill was always protected by Yue Liangze, the greatest sword cultivator of the age. After she destroyed the Heavenly Dao, laid her regrets to rest, and left herself to die, she opened her e 480.3kFavorites513.2kClicks/ch265.8kGifts
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Beautiful
20 Summoning the Soul 招魂 Gardenia山栀子Romance580k WordsCompleted [The entire novel has been carefully revised. The revised version differs greatly from pirated copies. I’m not responsible for any pirated version.] -The fallen young lady of a noble family x the dead young general- From a carefree young noble to a traitorous court villain, Xu Hexue’s crimes were too numerous to recount. Even fifteen years after he had been sentenced and put to death, people in the streets and markets of Great Qi still spoke of his past and spat on his wicked deeds. Ni Su neve 412kFavorites448.7kClicks/ch293.6kGifts
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Snow covers the green cliffs, and I bear it.
21 Junior Brother 师弟 Returning Mountain Jade归山玉Romance619k WordsCompleted Junior Brother Ming Li was powerful in her previous life, stronger than anyone else. Born into a top sect, she had extraordinary talent from childhood and joined the ranks of the continent's seven greatest at sixteen. She was the textbook beauty: strong and stunning, with no tragic past. Because the tragedy belonged to the people around her. From her family and friends to her fellow disciples, they were all tormented by love, hate, anger, and obsession until they wished they were dead. Rumor 387.8kFavorites386.1kClicks/ch280.2kGifts
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Super good-looking
22 21+ Borrowing Yang Energy 渡阳气 Sing of the Wind and Go风歌且行Romance275k WordsCompleted 261.9kFavorites279kClicks/ch131.9kGifts
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It's pretty good, everyone should consider buying it.
23 After Being Reborn, I Married My Archrival 重生后和宿敌结婚了 White Feather Drawing a Carved Bow白羽摘雕弓Romance862k WordsCompleted This story has been revised many times. The final version is the one on the official Jinjiang site. Blurb: Before Qun Qing died, she hated the powerful minister Lu Huating most of all. She hated his cunning and treachery as he helped the new emperor secure the throne. She thought about him day and night and tried everything she could, but she still couldn't beat him. In the end, she became a casualty at his hands. After Qun Qing died, she saw the fallen princess she'd given her life to protect 219kFavorites226.1kClicks/ch185.9kGifts
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It's alright.
24 The Sword Is Drawn 剑出鞘 Chen Xiaozhi沉筱之Romance831k WordsOngoing [Later in the story, if there's no update by 10 p.m., there won't be one. Don't wait.] A Zhi had a senior fellow disciple in her sect. They said that after only one year of sword training, he could single-handedly wipe out the demon lair at the foot of the mountain. In winter, snow fell on Qingxing Mountain. His sword aura kept the chill at bay within three feet, and not a single flake touched his white robes. The day Master brought A Zhi into the sect, he pointed at the man and said, “I've c 182kFavorites203.7kClicks/ch213.7kGifts
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Available to watch
25 My Sword 我剑 Shu Ning黍宁Romance628k WordsOngoing *Male lead: Zhang Yinzhen Bai Hong was born with a sword bone. Cool and strikingly handsome, he was known in his day as the “remarkable talent of the Sword Sect.” After all, the virtuous sect’s aloof beauty is practically destined to fall for a demonic sect’s enchantress. Bai Hong defied the world’s judgment and fell in love with Jiang Xue, the Holy Maiden of the demonic sect. Zhou Mang was quiet and slow-witted, with little talent. Her father died when she was three, her mother when she was f 77.7kFavorites56.2kClicks/ch198.2kGifts
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Available for viewing (serialized).
26 A Great Dream 大梦 Yiren Kui Kui伊人睽睽Romance920k WordsCompleted [Life is one long dream, and in that dream there are only me and my senior brother.] [Who could make my senior brother their own with love alone?] A gentle, elegant, slightly bewitching senior brother x his willful junior sister who’s always up to mischief “My senior brother died when I was sixteen.” “My senior brother isn’t my moonlight. He’s everyone’s moonlight but mine.” “My senior brother and I depended on each other. He was naturally gifted at everything, while I was terrible at everyt 48.7kFavorites47.4kClicks/ch24.5kGifts
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Senior Brother's Favoritism
27 A Ruo Has a God 阿箬有神明 Wen San温三Romance611k WordsCompleted [New novel launching in late 2026: Borrow Me an Arrow That Pierces the Clouds. There is a saying that anyone who encounters ghosts, monsters, or evil spirits can seek A Ruo's help. She's easy to recognize: a woman in green with a basket on her back. They say her basket contains a magical treasure, one that can be traded for the highest seat of power. When asked about it, A Ruo smiled. "What I carry on my back really is a treasure." What exactly is it? She said 38.8kFavorites42.7kClicks/ch16.5kGifts
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So pretty! [Kissing emoji]
28 My Husband Is a World-Destroying Demon 我夫君是灭世魔头 Fu Meng扶梦Romance545k WordsCompleted [The print edition is out, with a new bonus chapter. Available on all platforms!] Qin Yingran is the daughter of a tutor, and she marries a scholar. After they marry, the scholar gives her everything she asks for. They aren’t rich, and they argue now and then, but their life is peaceful enough. Yingran thinks they’ll go on living a quiet, ordinary life forever. Until one day, a group of people storms into their home, shouting, “We’ve found that demon Xu Liling’s hideout!” Yingran hides at a di 489.6kFavorites569.3kClicks/ch540.9kGifts
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"Xu Licheng is often rainy, and she said she wanted an umbrella."
29 Carry Me Across the Nine Heavens 渡我九重天 Painter丹青手Romance779k WordsCompleted Yao Zhi was a potted plant who cultivated for a thousand years and became an immortal. She was exceptionally appointed as an immortal official, entrusted with the Book of Fate and tasked with managing the destinies of mortals. She descended to the mortal realm to oversee their fates, only for the first three fires of her new appointment to burn her instead. The mortal under her supervision was not only clever enough to be troublesome, but also exceptionally handsome. There was a saying among 101.6kFavorites110.6kClicks/ch96.6kGifts
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Beautiful! Beautiful!
30 Divinity Transformation 化神 Gardenia山栀子Romance757k WordsCompleted [Complete.] “She tried to ruin his cultivation with her heartless body.” “I heard the Zhao family’s youngest daughter, Lin Niang, had her heart ripped out by something and was thrown into the Blackwater River. She’s dead.” “Who said that? She isn’t dead at all!” “Her heart was ripped out. How could she still be alive?” Not only did Lin Niang survive, her temperament changed completely. Dressed in bright spring colors, she wandered along the banks of the Blackwater River day and night. Some sai 30.3kFavorites24.2kClicks/ch30.9kGifts
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This is alright.

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