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1. 1 月 Chong Huo Rising Over the Moon 月上重火 Junzi Yize君子以泽Romance327k WordsCompleted My surname is Shangguan. I hail from Chang'an and am staying in Gusu for now. Across the river is a cup brimming with golden wine, and in the courtyard a tree full of white jade blossoms. Might you stay a while and sit with me, young lady?, Shangguan Tou Theme: A self-reliant, strong female lead, Zhi'er. 32.4kFavorites190.6kClicks/ch502Gifts

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   I cherished the first year and a half, the purest and happiest time.

2. 2 反 Villainess Must Live a Long Life 反派必须长命百岁 Lintian临天Romance1.1M WordsCompleted No Xiaohongshu recommendations, please. Gu Zhizhuo thought she’d been born under an unlucky star in her previous life. Her fifteenth year had been especially disastrous. To be specific: 1. She was born into a distinguished family, with wealth and privilege from birth. In the year she came of age, her family was stripped of its title and wealth, and every member was killed. 2. She had been betrothed to the Crown Prince since childhood and was destined to become Empress. In the year she came of 277.9kFavorites329.3kClicks/ch328.7kGifts

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   It's a rebirth-themed novel with a satisfying plot, defying fate, and a perfect match—I absolutely love the male lead's character. However, there's too much palace intrigue [loading], and the male lead has too little screen time. It's bland but also a shame to abandon it [fist bump].

3. 3 金 Ballad of the Golden Wind 金风谣 Rise And Leap起跃Romance530k WordsCompleted Also titled: "Why Is She Always There When I Turn Around?" Lou Lingfeng, eldest son of the Lou family, became its head at twenty-four and rose to the top of the Five Great Families, but could never shake off the stain from his past. When he was young and studying, he fell for a young lady from the Jin family, one of the great clans. He confessed to her in public, only to hear her say, "I don't like men like you, Young Master Lou." People consequently speculated that the reason he had yet to m 71.3kFavorites67.3kClicks/ch49.5kGifts

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   Open high and close low The synopsis is quite appealing ("Why am I here the moment she turns around?" Reminds me of *Feng He Ju*, where the male and female leads reunite after many years, but in that book, the male lead rejects the female lead. Maybe this one is too normal, making it less exciting for me [loading]). 🐶🌹 However, the male and female leads seem hesitant and awkward, lacking the tension I expected. The plot is slow-paced, padded, and unsatisfying. The female lead can do divination, but I can't see what makes her character strong so far.

4. 4 攻 The Correct Strategy to Approach the Yandere Supporting Male Lead 攻略男配的正确方法 Owe Three Taels of Gold欠金三两Romance470k WordsCompleted Originally titled The Right Way to Woo a Sickly Obsessive Male Supporting Character This novel has been contracted for publication as a physical book under the title When the Lanterns Meet, available at all bookstores [The new novel Brother is currently being serialized. Click the column to read it.] Blurb Li Ruoshui transmigrated into a book, and the System tasked her with wooing the gentle, considerate male supporting character Lu Zhiyao, whose smile was like a spring breeze. She had prepared 565.9kFavorites701.5kClicks/ch328.3kGifts

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   Anti-routine Lu Zhiyao is good, but the system setting for this conquest is inherently flawed. The female protagonist initially entered this world with the goal of conquering the male protagonist, but was moved by Lu Zhiyao's "simplicity." On one hand, Lu Zhiyao actually tolerates the existence of the female protagonist, who is beyond his control; on the other hand, the female protagonist actually falls in love with the person who initially wanted to kill her, whom he only saw as a conquest target—and this love is tinged with pity. It can be said that the author tried hard to write a story where the past and future female protagonists overlap, and the female protagonist travels from the present to the past to change the male protagonist, thus achieving a time loop—of course, according to the normal route, they should be mutually attracted, but it was forced to feel like destiny. Destiny isn't inherently bad, but the main problem is that the world is too thin, and the unfortunate setting is a fatal flaw. But it doesn't matter, I love reading romance, and the author's writing style is still a reason for me to keep reading.

5. 5 穿 After Becoming the Short-Lived White Moonlight, I Made Peace with the Villain 穿成短命白月光后，和反派HE了 Blue-and-White Porcelain Ablaze青花燃Romance648k WordsCompleted [Print edition title: The White Moonlight’s Guide to the Demon King. Available on all platforms.] Sang Yuanyuan transmigrated into an old-fashioned fantasy romance novel full of angst, becoming the male lead’s beautiful but ill-fated first love, who dies young. The male lead loves her, and so do the other male characters. Because the heroine has a face almost identical to hers, all the men both love and torment her, leaving her physically and emotionally battered. Her romance with the male le 533.1kFavorites1.3MClicks/ch320.5kGifts

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   Domineering CEO

6. 6 青 Azure Cloud Terrace 青云台 Chen Xiaozhi沉筱之Romance769k WordsCompleted “I’m trapped beneath Xijin Terrace, and I’ve nearly bled dry. Yet all I can think is that little girl absolutely must not come here. If… she really does come, I’ll just tell everyone I saw her and that she’s already dead.” Theme: When the tower collapses, build another in its place. 338kFavorites351.4kClicks/ch170.4kGifts

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   Bickering lovers

7. 7 诸 Everything Is Auspicious, Nothing Is Forbidden 诸事皆宜百无禁忌 Mu Mu Zi木沐梓Romance321k WordsCompleted When Qiu Xinran was young and foolish, she once lived in the capital for three years. During a war in the northwest, with no one at court to take charge, she cast a divination in front of everyone. Her reading sent the bedridden heir of the Xia family to the war-torn frontier. Seven years later, Qiu Xinran returns to Chang'an, just as the sickly heir from back then, now the Marquis of Dingbei, comes home victorious. The capital's gambling houses open betting pools on when the marquis will settle 268.3kFavorites353.4kClicks/ch110.5kGifts

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   Pretending to be weak to deceive others

8. 8 深 Hidden in Plain Sight 深藏不露 Retreating Halberd退戈Romance289k WordsCompleted Simplified Chinese edition available for preorder. One day, the refined and studious Fifth Young Master accidentally revealed his astonishing martial arts skills, able to hit a target a hundred paces away and unfathomably powerful. The Third Young Lady, raised on the frontier and never one to stand on ceremony, showed off her literary talent, holding her own in a debate against a crowd of scholars. Everyone was astonished to discover that these two had been hiding their t 238kFavorites541.4kClicks/ch178.1kGifts

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   I've forgotten the plot, but "Retreat from the Front, Love at First Sight, A Match Made in Heaven" is probably not bad.

9. 9 他 He Must Have Something Special About Him 他定有过人之处 Tian Ruyu天如玉Romance474k WordsCompleted (The print edition is now available.) When Shen Rong married Shan Zong, he was still the legendary darling of the heavens. But before they had spent even one true day as husband and wife, she was sent home with the divorce papers he had given her. When her family asked about Shan Zong, she answered with complete confidence, “He's dead!” One day, amid the vast frontier and its formidable passes, that man “came back from the dead” right before her eyes... Much later, on a frontier post road, the 204.9kFavorites303.4kClicks/ch109.4kGifts

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   Double strength

10. 10 反21+ My Villainous Classmate Is Born Under a Lucky Star 反派同窗他命带锦鲤 Sing of the Wind and Go风歌且行Romance559k WordsCompleted 169.1kFavorites211.9kClicks/ch55.5kGifts

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    Ancient Campus Development

11. 11 寒 Crossing the Cold River by Boat 寒舟渡 Yan Shi Yi燕识衣Romance325k WordsCompleted [My next novel will be Spring Comes Late: a melodramatic, heart-wrenching tale of pursuing a wife, with brothers turning against each other to steal her away, and a mad-dog male lead getting his comeuppance. Please add it to your collections!] Novel blurb: A sweet and spirited young princess x a ruthless yet pure-hearted brocade guard 1. To find her father's whereabouts, Shen Miaozhou disguised herself as someone else and married Wei Lin, the cold, heartless, and notorious Commander of the Impe 7.1kFavorites5.6kClicks/ch1.7kGifts

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    Redemption

12. 12 敛 Lian Qingshan 敛青山 Island Toward the Wild向野之岛Romance386k WordsOngoing See the end for the preview of my upcoming novel, "After Being Killed 70 Times, the Editor Transmigrated into My Book". Please add it to your reading list. Socially anxious, proud, cold-faced heroine x talkative, beautiful but tragic young man "Alone I walk the green hills, And together we return when our hair has turned white." -- Mu Zhao once thought her life as a ghost hunter was nothing special, until she met Yan Ze. He was a ghost who turned everything she knew upside down. The first 1.2kFavorites280Clicks/ch143Gifts

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    Love between a human and a ghost

13. 13 坤 Kunning Palace 坤宁 Shi Jing时镜Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Chapter 254 was posted by mistake and contains no new material. I’ll come back to add a bonus chapter after I finish "The Sword Pavilion Hears the Bell" in 2024. Thanks for understanding, and I’m very sorry!] Jiang Xuening was not a good person. To become empress, she used every trick and scheme at her disposal, trampling countless sincere feelings along the way. But before she died, she was willing to risk her own life to plead for someone else. The Ministry of Justice’s Vice Minister, Zhang 664.9kFavorites1.1MClicks/ch518.4kGifts

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    High Mountain Flower

14. 14 一 Three Thousand Worlds in a Single Thought 一念三千 Chen Xiaozhi沉筱之Romance383k WordsCompleted The male lead is a scheming dog and a master manipulator. The whole story is built on one scheme after another from him, so if that's not your thing, don't dive in. This is the story of a greedy, lustful, petty heroine who sets out to make herself a cannon-fodder character. The central message is to convey a spirit of self- 46.5kFavorites63.3kClicks/ch6.1kGifts

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    Fighting and snatching The story is roughly about a young man who, when he was still a hostage, was warmed by the female lead and believed he would marry her when she grew up. However, the female lead didn't care and had a crush on the second male lead, whom she considered her "white moonlight." As an adult, she was willing to live in the cold palace for three years for him, rather than agree to her father's conditions to marry the male lead. Even her "white moonlight" couldn't marry her because of her. The male lead fought fiercely for her affections, while the female lead was caught between her brother, her country, her people, and the male lead. In the end, she gave birth to a son and they reached a truce.

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