Novels like The Legitimate Daughter Returns, the Concubine's Daughter Knows Her Place
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- 1 Hear the Branch 闻枝 The full-cast audio drama is out. Search for “Spring Curtains at Dusk.” [Rebirth + Household Intrigue + Punishing Villains + Sweet Romance + Chief Minister] In her previous life, a staged fall into the water and the careful provocations of several people drove Gu Wanzhi to fall out with her parents and marry down to the impoverished young master Jin Yuanshu. She always believed the man who had desperately rescued her from the water was right for her. She thought her elder sister, who had always 1.5kReads8.7Score151Shelves
- 2 Transmigrated to the 1970s, I Survive on Interstellar Nutrient Liquid 穿越七零，我靠星际营养液度日 Before she transmigrated, Qin Shuwan had a wealthy family, loving parents, and an older brother who always took the blame for her. She lived a carefree, comfortable life. But one day, she woke up in a world decades in the past and found herself in the body of a pampered young woman with a dangerous secret. At least she had a not-too-reliable golden finger. One day, Qin Shuwan sat in a field, rubbing her stomach, which hadn't tasted a drop of oil in half a month, and cried out to the heavens, “I 6.8kReads8.6Score604Shelves
- 3 She’s Faking It 她装的 Original title: Stop Holding Back Around Me When Lin Ting was sixteen, she met her brother Lin Mo’s good friend. The young man had sharp brows, bright eyes, and a tall, upright figure. He smiled at her warmly, making her heart flutter. But as a textbook introvert, Lin Ting never found the courage to confess her feelings. · Six years later, Lin Ting let loose online: “Hey, handsome, are you there? Show me your abs.” At her brother’s wedding, Lin Ting acted sweet and demure. Whenever someone appro 1.5kReads9.2Score199Shelves
- 4 County Magistrate, Your Sweet Wife Doesn’t Want You Anymore 县长大人，亲亲的老婆不要你了 Li Hao achieved success at a young age and rose to a high position. His heart is full of passion, and he wants to dedicate himself to serving others. As for a wife, all he needs is someone sweet and obedient. Lin Xiao is a red plum blossom blooming on a sheer cliff. She has ideals in her heart and strength beneath her feet. A man? Her career matters far more. But love arrives unexpectedly, as naturally as flowing water. Love grows over time. Both leads are each other’s first and only love, with 2kReads9.2Score198Shelves
- 5 The Nineties: A Short-Lived Girl Tells Fortunes at a Street Stall in Hong Kong! 九零：短命女在香江摆摊算命！ [Mysticism + fortune-telling + feel-good power fantasy + no ghosts or gods + heroine with a golden finger + sweet romance] The day Gu Lingxi received her college acceptance letter, she was crushed to death by someone who jumped from a building and transmigrated to Hong Kong in the 1990s. Her parents and maternal grandparents had just been murdered, and she was the sole survivor. She also stumbled upon her family’s only treasure: a pair of white gloves. The gloves could tell fortunes, so to supp 7.2kReads8.7Score1kShelves
- 6 The Warcraft Lord of Another World 异界之魔兽领主 Heaven and Earth are impartial, treating all things as straw dogs. Using blood as his medium, he writes the Blood Art of Spirit Commanding, commands all things under Heaven, and fights against the Heavenly Dao! He defies fate and changes his destiny! On the road to supremacy, who can claim to be innocent? Anyone who stands in my way commits the greatest crime! Reborn in another world, with no System and no saintly compassion. Beast taming, empire-building. 4.4kReads8.4Score384Shelves
- 7 Reborn to Marry a Mad Prince, I Send My Scumbag Ex to the Crematorium 重生嫁疯批太子爷，让渣男火葬场 [Face-slapping the scumbags + real and fake heiresses + unmatched in medicine and poison + scumbag gets his comeuppance + clingy, unhinged crown prince] Rumor had it that the legitimate young lady, whom the Great General's household had gone to great lengths to find, was ugly, illiterate, and shameless! Before she had even been home for half a month, she had slept with several servants and coachmen in the household! On her younger sister's birthday, she even climbed into her brother-in-law's bed 3.5kReads9.1Score665Shelves
- 8 What a Shock! The Sickly Young Master Huo's Darling Made the Ghosts Cry Again 惊！病娇霍少的心肝又把鬼虐哭了 [Metaphysics + fortune-telling + ghost-hunting + gossip + romance] Metaphysics prodigy Jiang Ruan transmigrates into a book and becomes a useless fake heiress with the same name. Before she transmigrated into the book, the King of Hell assigned her two tasks. She has to complete them to stay alive. First, become the salvation of the sickly, possessive Huo Shao within two years. Second, read faces, tell fortunes, hunt ghosts, and enjoy gossip until she earns 10,000 merit points. The haters all la 18.1kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
- 9 The Grand Secretary Regrets It, but I've Already Won the Favor of the Entire Harem 首辅大人后悔了，我已宠冠六宫 The short drama of the same name, Resigning as Chief Councillor, is now streaming on Hongguo and Fanqie! In this life, both leads are faithful to each other. In her previous life, the heroine, Liu Mianmian, was married. In his previous life, the hero, Xie Lingyuan, died young. There’s no rivalry between women, so if that’s what you’re looking for, this story isn’t for you. In her previous life, no one lived happily. In this life, Liu Mianmian just wants to live comfortably. All she wants this t 8.6kReads8.8Score2.4kShelves
- 10 Reborn, I Will Benefit the People 新生，我要造福一方 Workplace romance in government circles + powerful officials + a senior leader and his sweet young wife + two equally strong leads + both romantically inexperienced + devoted love + rebirth Heroine: She is warmhearted and compassionate, neither meek nor domineering. She has ideals and convictions, but she isn't all-powerful. She and the hero are evenly matched, sharing the sweetness of romance as well as supporting each other as they work side by side to realize their ideals. They respect and lo 41.7kReads9.3Score4.8kShelves
- 11 The 1970s: My Blind Date Is a Little Fierce 七零之相亲对象有点凶 Xu Jiao had been pretty since she was little. She was renowned as the beauty of Qingshan Village and the surrounding countryside, and everyone was eager to play matchmaker for her. But Xu Jiao rejected every suitor, finding one ugly and another pathetic. Her mother was at her wits’ end. On the third day of her visit to her older sister, someone introduced her to a potential match. He was handsome, capable, and from a good family. She had seen his photo, and he looked pretty good. He was so perfe 17.3kReads8.8Score1.6kShelves
- 12 The General's Abandoned Daughter Flees the Famine with Her Adorable Child 将门弃女：拖着萌宝去逃荒 New title: “Plane-Space Adventures: I Crossed Over with a Light Sniper Rifle.” It’s another strong female lead farming story: gentle and heartwarming at first, then wildly satisfying later on. Meng Qingluo, a special forces ace, is blasted into the sky by a villain’s bomb while rescuing hostages. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself in ancient times, in the body o 15.8kReads9.4Score2.6kShelves
- 13 The Mystic Girl Says You’ll Die at Three in the Morning. Pay Up to Change Your Fate 玄学少女说你三更死，打钱改命 [Metaphysics + fortune-telling + ghost-catching + satisfying read + lighthearted + sweet romance + CEO + wealthy family + no angst] After enduring a tribulation, Wu Yin is struck by lightning and sent back to the twenty-first century. With no money to her name, she can only set up a fortune-telling stall online. She tells fortunes, catches ghosts, and treats illnesses. If you can pay, she’ll take the job. “Master, if you’re really any good, tell me where my daughter, who was kidnapped years ago, 59.2kReads9.4Score30.3kShelves
- 14 The 1980s: The Cold-Faced Officer Is Wrapped Around the Sickly Beauty's Finger 八零：冷面军官被病弱美人拿捏了 [Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion] Martial arts prodigy Jiang Nianzhi transmigrates into a book and arrives in an alternate version of the 1980s, where she becomes a delicate, frail beauty. Thinking she would run into one terrible person after another, she rolls up her sleeves, ready to beat them all into submission. But her feisty mother favors girls over boys, her white-lotus sister is a doting sister-con, her grandmother is a beauty enthusiast, and her little brother has 78.6kReads9.4Score12.1kShelves
- 15 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 308.4kReads9.4Score27.5kShelves
- 16 Offending the Imperial Daughter 惹金枝 (Film and television rights have been sold. The physical book will be available for preorder on July 10 at 19:00.) Shi Buyu was born smiling. At that moment, lightning flashed and thunder roared, collapsing a row of outbuildings in the Shi family compound. Days of torrential rain brought devastating floods and countless victims. Rumors soon spread through the capital that she was a disaster star sent into the world. But she was as precocious as a demon, with a photographic memory, and learned bo 254.1kReads9.7Score29.8kShelves
- 17 I Made a Pact with the Gods, and Now You’re All Turtles 我与神明画押，你们都变王八 [Ridiculous comedy] When Yan Luo was put on the spot from the start and expected to confess in front of everyone, she thought fast and called out to the young master: “Classmate Cang Zhu, wise people don’t fall in love. Let’s build a beautiful homeland and work together to create a harmonious society!” The young master: ... The young master at first: “Go away! Keep your distance! You’re scaring me!” The young master, winning himself over: “Holy crap, she insulted me. Does she like me? Holy crap, 23.6kReads9.6Score3.5kShelves
- 18 Transmigrated as a Treacherous Minister's Legitimate Daughter, She Plays the Part to Perfection 穿成奸臣嫡女，她本色出演 [Transmigrate into a book + Career-focused early on + Sweet romance + One-on-one romance + Both leads are devoted to each other] [Two-faced, ruthless minister's daughter × Wild, formidable iron-faced general] The ruler of the business world transmigrates into a book overnight, becoming the daughter of the treacherous chancellor. She throws her weight around and commits every kind of evil, with the label “vicious supporting female character” practically branded onto her. She's madly pursuing the 86.4kReads9.6Score11.3kShelves
- 19 She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反 [Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and 106.8kReads9.5Score12.4kShelves
- 20 Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷 [The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Hu Yitian and Zhang Jingyi] After keeping her talents hidden for fifteen years, Hua Zhi thought she could spend her life as a proper aristocratic young lady, living in peace. But when the Hua family’s fortunes collapse, she has no choice but to reveal her sharp edge and hold the storm-tossed household together. Being out in public becomes the norm, and so does galloping through the streets. When all else fails, she even carries a coffin on he 18.6kReads9.6Score4.2kShelves
- 21 EN Another World: My Life Has Cheat Codes! 异世界：我的人生开了挂！ [Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes 138kReads9.6Score16.9kShelves
