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- 1 Transmigrating to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms as an Empress 穿越到五代十国当女帝 I'm an ordinary female liberal arts student. After an accident, I transmigrated to the Later Jin and became Shi Jingtang's youngest daughter. I put my knowledge of history to use, sweeping across the land with a million troops, conquering the eight corners of the world, uniting the four seas, and winning the hearts of all under heaven. I gathered the finest weapons, recruited elite troops, armed myself to the teeth, and joined the heroes of the land in vying for supremacy over the Central Plains 687Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 A Lowborn Daughter Gives Up? I’ll Seize the Crown and Rule the Court Instead 庶女摆烂？反手夺嫡掌朝堂 [Soul transmigration + political intrigue + comeback + household infighting + face-slapping] [Warning: The heroine is calculating and scheming, not a saintly, self-sacrificing white lotus at all. She endures hardship early on, then gets her revenge in spectacular fashion. Romance is just a bonus; this is a career-focused story, not a love story. Not recommended for readers who want a romance-obsessed heroine.] A carefully planned car accident and an inexplicable journey through time and space br —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Transmigrated to a World in Chaos, She Refuses to Be a Beauty 穿越乱世，她才不要做佳人 [Plot-driven + political intrigue + light ensemble cast + female protagonist + light romance] Xu Wan transmigrates into a book set in a chaotic era, only to become an anonymous passerby. The System hunts her down because she carries software that has nothing to do with the book. She thinks that escaping the original plot will let her lie flat for good, but after witnessing the bloodshed and chaos of the era with her own eyes, she steps back into the world. • This time, her forceful interventi 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 A Max-Level Black Lotus: Don't Mess with Her Unless You Want to Die! 满级黑莲花，不想死的别惹她！ [Wish-fulfillment] [Transmigrated top-tier female tactician VS sickly, ruthless, two-faced male lead] [Farming] [Gourmet] [Household intrigue] In her previous life, Mu Shining was a wealthy heiress. She barely had time to enjoy the good life before two useless scumbags, one recklessly using drugs in the west and the other dumping wastewater in the east, joined forces to bring about a zombie siege. Struggling to survive in the apocalypse, Mu Shining relied on her brilliant strategies to become a 1.2kReads8.8Score121Shelves
- 5 The Illegitimate Daughter Claims the Title of Eldest Legitimate Daughter, So I Tear Up Her Rebirth Script 外室女冒认嫡长，我撕她重生剧本 The rating has only just come in, so it’ll go up later. [Clear-Headed Heroine Who Always Gets Even × Sharp-Tongued Hero Who Turns Into a Flirt] [Native-Born Protagonist vs. Reborn Antagonist] Xu Yuan was branded a jinx and sent away from home for twelve years. When she returned, she discovered that her clan cousin had taken her place as the legitimate eldest daughter. Her father doted on her, her mother cherished her, her older brother spoiled her, and her grandmother adored her. Even her fiancé 8kReads8.7Score840Shelves
- 6 Mother Dies from the Start, I Beat the Villains, Tame the Bandits, and Become Empress 开局死娘暴打极品收服土匪成女皇 [Strong heroine + adored by all + fleeing war and famine + System] Lin Ru suddenly transmigrated from an age of technological cultivation into the heroine of a tragedy novel! With the plot in hand, she had nothing to fear! She was going to turn this tragic story into a thrilling tale of a powerful heroine! She had not only a portable shop! She also had a System to back her up! When her villainous grandparents tried to steal the compensation money meant for her father, she grabbed a kitchen knife 183Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 7 I Want You All to Eat Your Fill, but You Want Me to Be Emperor 想让你们吃饱，你们想让我当皇帝 [No CP + A little political intrigue. This story has no CP, but there will be children. It’s still set in a historical world where the family and the state are intertwined. The level of development and production makes anything else unrealistic, and it wouldn’t suit the setting.] Excerpt: “What’s your name?” Her eyes looked disdainful, but her actions said otherwise: she drank it all in one go. “I am of the Zhao clan.” Shen Sinan pursed her lips. “Oh, Young Master Zhao. What are you here for?” Z 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 We’re All Caught in the Same Game 你我皆是局中人 [Strong female lead + satisfying revenge + duty to country + court intrigue + clever characters + ruthless payback] Warning: If you don't like this, don't read it. The main cast is tagged [career-focused] and [unhinged]. Especially the heroine, Xiao Qingyao. Everything she does is driven by a clear purpose. Everything! Xiao Qingyao is deeply calculating. She plans ten moves ahead with every step, and a hundred moves ahead overall. Every move is part of a scheme. Gold is never pure, and no one i 67Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 9 Transmigrated with My Real Dad as a Novel’s Cannon Fodder: We Fled the Famine and Got Rich 和亲爹穿成锦鲤文炮灰，逃荒暴富了 [Bring Dad into a book + exile and famine flight + devoted romantic leads + sweet, feel-good power fantasy] Xia Yunchu unexpectedly transmigrates into a historical romance about a lucky heroine and becomes an arrogant, doomed supporting character. The day before, she was celebrating becoming the legitimate daughter of a powerful prime minister. The next day, her whole family is arrested and exiled... She loses her noble status and her fiancé, the crown prince, and nearly gets assassinated while 589Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 10 The Mightiest Bandit Queen: She Toppled the Yuan Emperor and Founded a New Dynasty 最强女匪，气死元皇建新朝 (Stick with the first chapter and you'll love it! Strong heroine + history + no romance or ambiguous relationships + conquest and empire-building, not a brainless protagonist) In the tenth year of the Dade era, the Yellow River changed course, and corpses littered the land. Zhao Yu woke up in a bandit den so poor they couldn't even afford a meal. She had become the frail biological daughter of the late chieftain, and a contest to choose the new leader was underway. As she stood amid the storm, M 322Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 11 The Chief Minister's Cherished Noble Wife 首辅娇宠天家贵妻 [Sweet Romance] + [Age Gap] + [Mutual Firsts] To ensure peace in the court and security for the Jiang family, Princess Zhaohua was forced to marry Shen Huaixiu, Minister of Revenue and Grand Secretary of the Cabinet. She was radiant and alluring, but had an ulterior motive. He was gentle and refined, yet kept secrets of his own. After their wedding, they should have stayed out of each other’s way, but one of them lost his heart, and the other fell in love. “Your Highness, may I ask where this ja 550Reads7.3Score101Shelves
- 12 Kill Every Conqueror 杀死每一个攻略者 “If the chosen woman cannot be killed, then kill every otherworldly soul that takes over her body.” On the night Wei Shulan died, she saw the truth of the world. She had lived for twenty-eight years, from being the apple of the Prince of Jing’an’s eye to becoming the only female prince of the Mingyao Dynasty. She held power over the court, yet it turned out she was merely a villain in a storybook who should have been written out long ago. The story’s heroine was called Luo Daien, an seem 258Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Shocking! The Flower-Palace Courtesan Is Pregnant, and the Barren Prince Will Have an Heir 惊！花魁孕崽，绝嗣王爷有后了 [Just rated, score may rise] (Sly yet spirited beauty × fake playboy, fake infertile, real prince) [Household-intrigue power fantasy + devoted couple + everyone’s favorite + marriage before love] Jiang Li took the place of a princess who had fallen on hard times and was sold into a brothel. After thirteen years, on the day she became the star courtesan, a mysterious man bought her first night, and she unexpectedly became his cure for pent-up desire. Who knew she was naturally fertile? After one 1.2kReads8.2Score145Shelves
- 14 The Cannon-Fodder's Schemes After Transmigrating Into a Book 穿书之病弱炮灰谋略 [Strong female lead + power struggles + a touch of ensemble cast] Shen Ruo'an transmigrates into a book, becoming a sickly cannon-fodder character who's about to die. Her only purpose is to make room for the heroine and provide her with family support. Shen Ruo'an refuses to do that. She wants to live and enjoy a happy life lying flat. Unfortunately, the Marquis's household is rife with infighting, the heroine is cunning, and a struggle for power is unavoidable... Disguised by her frail appearan 2.7kReads8.7Score239Shelves
- 15 Oppose the Grand Princess's Ascension? Enjoy a Clan-Wiping Game 反对长公主登基？赏你九族消消乐 Political intrigue + powerful heroine + a touch of ensemble cast. Warning: the heroine is a total maniac. Huangfu Aushuang, Princess Pingkang, is the late emperor’s eldest legitimate daughter and the young emperor’s eldest sister. She commands tens of thousands of troops, keeping in check the great clans who are all watching the emperor’s youth and waiting for a chance to make their move. Everyone says she is reckless, arrogant, and defiant of convention, preferring beautiful women to handsome m 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Can a Cannon-Fodder Nobody Cultivate Immortality and Pilot a Mecha from the Start? 开局炮灰也能修仙开机甲吗？ [Strong Female Lead + Instanced Dungeons + No Catfighting + Everyone's Favorite + Ensemble Cast + Political Intrigue + Not Reborn] On the eve of a chaotic age, Huai Zhen was stabbed to death and left with the infamy of being “a songstress who knew nothing of her country's impending doom.” She had hoped to be reborn in style, but a “Storybook Spirit” tried to tempt her: You're a cannon-fodder character in a tale. Want revenge? I can help you steal Su Ruyan's male lead! Huai Zhen: What kind of f —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Empress: Father, It's Time to Abdicate 女帝：父皇，你该退位了 {Strong male and female leads + alternate setting + power struggles + revenge + palace and household intrigue + the aloof one brought down from his pedestal + princess + empress + satisfying wish fulfillment + teacher-student romance + divorce and remarriage + chief minister + 1v1} She is the most honored eldest princess, who played a key role when her father ascended the throne. Her mother is the empress, her brother is the crown prince, and all her uncles are great generals. With a family back 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 EN Empress: Enough Fooling Around! Who Put the Imperial Robe on Me? 女帝：胡闹！谁把龙袍给朕穿上了 No CP + powerful heroine becomes emperor + satisfying throne-grabbing story + ruthless and self-serving Di Qingyu is a woman whose only wish is to become emperor and seize power, standing above all others. The history books describe this disastrous princess as “cunning to the point of being demonic, debauched and lawless, a scourge to the imperial court, and scheming to become emperor. She is a disgrace and an aberration among the women of the world.” At eighteen, she was made Grand Princess of 232Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 19 A Moment’s Impulse Made Me the Founding Empress 一时手痒后，我成了开国女帝 [Strong female lead + warlord hegemony in troubled times + nation-building + ensemble cast] A prophecy descends from the heavens: a time of chaos is coming. Lu Zhao had only wanted to find a Beggars' Gang and get by. But someone said she was destined to become the Human Emperor. So Lu Zhao embarked on her path to conquer the realm amid the chaos. Strategist 1: “It's just a lord. We can replace her whenever we want.” Later: “I would gladly become the lord's sword, and die without regret.” Strateg 8kReads8.2Score919Shelves
- 20 Reborn as Princess Pingyang of the Tang Dynasty 重生大唐平阳公主 [Tang Dynasty + two powerful leads with secret identities + ruthless action + iron-blooded female commander + ultimate face-slapping] In her previous life, she died in battle at Weize Pass, and her many years of merit became a political rival's stepping stone. Reborn, Li Zhaoning gripped a three-foot sword, rebuilt an army of seventy thousand women, and vowed to grind those who had betrayed her to dust. A handsome, poor accountant appeared by her side, raising tens of thousands of sacks of grain 182Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Three-Part Tea Game 三分茶局 A pot of clear tea, a few remnants of scripture. She only wanted to survive in a turbulent age, but amid the crashing waves of political intrigue, she took tea as her boat, ferrying herself and others across. In Jiankang's elite circles, who hasn't heard of “Master Hua”? That cup of clear tea earned her the respect of the literati, and made her the most dazzling “outsider.” With a few words and a laugh, she could make even stubborn stones nod, or turn the tides of the realm. But Jiankang was f 107Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Female Emperor in a Chaotic Age: From the Start, at a Mass Grave! 乱世女帝，开局乱葬岗！ Transmigration to another world + strong heroine + no overpowered golden finger + flight from famine + warfare My name is A Zi, also known as Wei Zi. A Zi is the daughter adopted by a farming family in a mountain village, while Wei Zi is the legitimate imperial princess of Wei, the foremost of the four kingdoms. Wei Zi transmigrates from another world to the modern world. One moment, she's just been born to the most esteemed empress of Wei. The next, she opens her eyes and finds herself buried i 658Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 23 Possessive Seduction: The Mad Prince Bows to the Disowned Girl 偏执撩惹，疯批王爷甘为弃女折腰 [Completed, both pure, scheming heroine, madman hero, equally matched, secret identities, political intrigue] After transmigrating, Chu Qieran, still an infant in her swaddling clothes, witnessed her birth mother's brutal death and her maternal family’s destruction. Cast aside as a pawn, she was confined at the border by her scummy father for seventeen years. Everyone regarded her as lowly, filthy, and despicable. But no one knew that during those seventeen years, she had lain low, hidden hersel 179Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 24 My Concubine's Dowry Is Five Million 小妾嫁妆五百万 [A Concubine Who Doesn't Want to Be Empress Is No Good Lord] [Still no interest in strong women and even stronger men] [Overpowered heroine], [Content warnings] [Neither lead is chaste] [Neither lead has a heart] [Both put on an act] [They use each other] [Their moral compass comes and goes] At the beginning of the story: Ni You kneels on the ground, begging Shi Jing to protect her. Later on: Ni You sits in a position of power, waiting for Shi Jing to repay her, one by one, for every kowtow she 743Reads9.1Score140Shelves
- 25 I Took Over Princess Shanyin's Body: Outwit the Plot and Stay Alive 魂穿山阴公主，破局保命 Betrayed and ambushed by her business partner, she died in an explosion, her soul extinguished. When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated to the most chaotic period in Chinese history, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and become Liu Chuyu, the Princess Shanyin infamous in history and destined for a tragic death. As a modern woman with no survival skills suited to ancient times, all she wanted was to keep her head down, stay alive, and seize a chance to escape. But on the road to 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Marquis Dotes on His Concubine and Neglects His Wife? She Turns Around and Marries a Mad Prince 侯爷宠妾灭妻？她扭头嫁疯批王爷 [Full-cast audio drama available] [Mad and ruthless male lead + sickly, cruel female lead] In her previous life, Su Ning was still naive. For Xiao Yi, she willingly married into the Xiao family and even let her green-tea younger sister use her blood as medicine for three years. Later, Xiao Yi murdered his father and elder sister to seize the title of Marquis of Dingbei. First, he used the keepsake her mother had left behind, then wiped out her entire family, having them all torn apart by chariot 2.7kReads9.0Score275Shelves
- 27 Conquest in a Chaotic Age: From Female Prisoner to Empress 乱世征途：我从女囚到女帝 ❤ Reborn + Strong Female Lead + Turbulent Times + Conquest ❤ She died and was reborn. This time, Xiao Susu can say she hasn’t lived in vain. From female prisoner to empress, Xiao Susu takes a path utterly different from the one she followed in her previous life. There are many hardships, but even more wonders. In an age of war, with flames raging across the land, the flowers of life bloom brilliantly on soil drenched in blood and flesh! This is Xiao Susu’s world! It is also the world of He Yingx 89Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 28 The Heroine of the Late Han Dynasty 汉末女枭雄 A lone girl whose family was wiped out while she was on the run unexpectedly becomes an emperor. At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, powerful clans were everywhere and warfare raged without end. On top of that, the Little Ice Age brought climate change and widespread desolation, leaving the people in dire straits. Liu Qin transmigrates as Liu Yu's daughter. After a chance encounter with Zhao Yun, she activates the System's storage space, avenges her father, recruits mighty generals and talent 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Princess Consort Is Ruthless, and Even the Brutal Prince Fears His Wife 王妃人狠心更狠，残暴王爷都惧内 Special forces medic Mu Jingchu woke up to find herself the neglected legitimate daughter of a marquis's household. She tore into her scumbag father, put her scheming stepmother in her place, and trampled everyone who had bullied the original owner underfoot. She thought that once she had dealt with them, she could use her medical skills to live comfortably in ancient times, counting silver every day and keeping a cute younger man. Who knew the emperor would issue an imperial decree marrying her 10.6kReads9.2Score801Shelves
- 30 Reborn as a Phoenix for Ten Thousand Lifetimes 万世为凰 [Strong Female Lead + No Fixed Couple + Satisfying Read + Court Intrigue] [No Rebirth, No Transmigration, No System] “Why is a woman called wicked just for wanting status, power, and wealth?” Xiao Qi remains silent. Song Shixu doesn't need his answer. She turns and walks away, and the two part ways. The palace, a symbol of supreme power, gleams in dazzling splendor. Song Shixu walks toward it up the jade steps, without a moment's hesitation. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Reborn, I’ll Win Your Heart Step by Step 重生我必步步攻心 (Everyone's favorite + one heroine + satisfying rebirth story + strong female lead + sweet enough to hurt + two powerful leads in their second life) First life: a beautiful, arrogant strong female lead vs. a terrible, ungrateful man Second life: a clever, charming good wife vs. an obedient, devoted husband who can't catch a break A satisfying read from start to finish. The spoiled, overbearing young lady can't stand being slighted, no matter where she is. But... Xie Shiyi's first life was a comp 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Chronicles of the Han Dynasty’s Last Empress 汉末女帝纪事录 Content warning: If you don’t accept a female lead in a one-on-one romance who has children, please don’t click. [Strong female lead + political intrigue + contest for supremacy + nation-building + one-on-one romance] At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the land is in turmoil. A flash flood sends the soul of Liu Zhen, a modern teacher, a thousand years into the past, where she possesses the frail, sickly Liu Zhen, the Han Emperor Ling’s second daughter, who died young. At the brink of death, 1.4kReads8.2Score223Shelves
- 33 Notes on Slow Transmigration: The Mandate of Heaven Arc 慢穿记事簿天命篇 [No CP] [No System] [Nation-Building] [Political Intrigue] [争霸] [Lighthearted Wish Fulfillment] The land is divided among powerful warlords, armies clash, and the people suffer. After transmigrating into the body of a general's daughter, Xie Ning opens her eyes to find herself surrounded by wolves and tigers, with every faction plotting against her. She turns the tables on them, making them lose both their wives and their soldiers. After escaping her cage, she keeps a low profile and builds her 1.1kReads8.8Score133Shelves
- 34 Funny: A Hundred Thousand Cavalrymen, and I’m Supposed to Play Support 搞笑，十万骑兵，让我打辅助 Strong female lead + no romance + incredible luck + lighthearted comedy Xia Lanfeng: I have an army of a hundred thousand elite cavalry. Wudou: We’re an auxiliary System. Auxiliary, got it? We help the chosen ones fulfill their wishes. We’re not a strong-female-lead System that lets you recruit followers everywhere. Xia Lanfeng: What’s wrong with recruiting followers? Just tell me, did I fulfill the chosen one’s wish or not? Wudou: You cheated! That’s not how this is supposed to work. Xia Lanfen 236Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 35 I Transmigrated, So I Might as Well Become an Empress 穿越了，搞个女帝当当 (The rating was just released, and it will rise later) [No romance. The heroine has every admirable quality, including a fiery temper, a long memory for grudges, exceptional intelligence, and a photographic memory.] Song Qiao thought she had died, but she came back to life, and in a very fantastical turn of events, transmigrated. Transmigration, huh? Song Qiao had never transmigrated before, but for an ordinary genius like Dr. Song, this was small potatoes. So why not start with a modest goal: b 2kReads8.6Score261Shelves
- 36 The Noble Daughter of a Poor Family Dumps Her Ex and Opens a Clinic 寒门嫡女踹掉前夫开医馆 Reborn on the night she was ruined and disgraced in an abandoned temple, Shen Qingyan turns the tables with a silver needle, pinning her half-sister and fiancé to a pillar of shame. Carrying a lost medical text, she quietly leaves her home and begins treating patients in the streets, specializing in ailments that leave the Imperial Medical Office helpless. From plagues in Nanjiang to mysterious illnesses in the palace, her medical skills shake the court and threaten the interests of the decaying —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 A Transmigrated Villainess, and the Male Lead's Hidden Love 穿越女配，男主爱意藏不住了 Transmigrate into a book + stunning beauty + comedy + twists + multiple male leads + mystery + thrills Shen Qingyuan transmigrates into the world of the novel Cang Xuan, becoming a minor female supporting character. To survive, she has to outwit and navigate her way around the various characters. In this dynasty, anyone who has transmigrated or been possessed by an evil spirit faces a death sentence if caught by the Pacification Office. From the start, a Daoist master uses exorcism arts on her, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Dashing General and Her Pretty Boy: Playing the Lazybones in Jiangnan 女将俏郎：我在江南装咸鱼 Also known as "All I See Is Dust" [Happy Ending + Strong Female Lead + Male Lead Transmigrates + Light Political Intrigue + Light Comedy] #Cool-Headed, Reserved Yet Warmhearted General vs. Witty, Gentle, Scheming, and Clingy Husband# In the winter of the nineteenth year of Shuncheng, General Lu is framed for treason. His steadfast loyalty is branded as treachery, and blood and bitterness stain the capital. Only a young orphaned girl is left behind. Four years later, the late emperor dies, and t 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Heaven-Chosen Evil Phoenix Is Reborn: Ruthless Tactics, Secure Throne! 天命恶凰重生，手段狠，帝位稳！ "A murderous, yandere heroine who cuts down everyone in her path vs. a mad loyal dog of a hero who bows his head to his superior + empress + the heroine puts her own interests above all else" In her previous life, Feng Zhizhuo mastered the art of political scheming. She crushed and killed every rival who stood in her way, becoming a vicious empress dowager whose countless murders and tyrannical rule cowed the realm. Yet the adopted son she had personally raised to the throne rewarded her with a 8.4kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
- 40 Transmigrated to a Year of Famine, I Accidentally Became Empress 穿越荒年，一不小心我成了女帝 Transmigration + fleeing famine + infrastructure building + war + contest for the throne + no storage space, just pure wish fulfillment Transmigrated? Of all places, why did she have to land in the middle of a famine migration, with corpses everywhere and war raging on all sides? She, Shen Xi, woke up in a chaotic age as a beauty. She had only wanted to live comfortably and keep her family safe. Who could have guessed that, somewhere along the way, she would become an empress? 211Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 41 Exiled, She Slaughters Her Way Through Ancient Times with an Armory at Her Side 流放后，她携武器库在古代杀疯了 [System + stockpiling supplies + powerful female lead + exile and refugee flight + miraculous doctor + infrastructure building + farming + disguising herself as a man] [This is a story about a female emperor] One day, the mercenary Murong Qin transmigrated into the body of the Crown Prince of the Great Ling Empire, only to find herself caught up in a wave of exiles. If this place has no room for me, I'll find somewhere that does. Giant snakes, assassins, refugees, and disasters came one after an 2.6kReads9.0Score415Shelves
- 42 Forced Into Rebellion, the Young Lady Goes on a Killing Spree 被逼造反后，大小姐她杀疯了 [Transmigration + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Political Intrigue + Pure Romance + Strong Female Lead + Reborn Female Supporting Character + One-on-One Romance] [Cool-Headed, Scheming Heroine vs. Noble, Cold-Hearted and Ruthless Heir] A powerful figure from the apocalypse transmigrates and becomes Shen Chaorong, the legitimate daughter of a treacherous chancellor in the Great Zhao court. She is hopelessly infatuated with the young master of the fallen Li family. When her fiancé, the young master 1.1kReads8.1Score136Shelves
- 43 The Grand Justice of the Court of Justice, Courted by Every Brothel, Is a Woman 全青楼都在攻略的大理寺卿是女的 [Female-led + no romance + strong heroine + political intrigue + mystery solving] After the emperor decreed that their children were to be betrothed from birth, the Duchess of Zhenguo disguised her daughter as a boy. She kept up the act for over twenty years. As the Duke's “second son,” she could not inherit the title, so she took the imperial examinations and entered the court. Everyone said Lord Gu, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, was a heaven-sent genius. No one knew that beneat 581Reads8.1Score104Shelves
- 44 A String of Suicidal Stunts, and the Reborn Heroine Doesn't Want to Live 一路作死，重生女主不想活 Open your eyes, close them, and a day has passed! Close your eyes and never open them again, and a lifetime has passed! Close your eyes, open them again... and you're reborn! After a lifetime of deceit and rivalry, having repaid her debts, avenged her wrongs, and settled her affairs, Wang Yun happily went to her death... But when she opened her eyes, she was reborn! Wang Yingzhang came back to life furious. So you won't let me live in peace? Fine. Then don't blame me for being ruthless. In her p 2.3kReads9.1Score240Shelves
- 45 The Princess Is Reborn Before Her Consort Can Imprison and Torture Her 被驸马囚禁凌迟之前，公主重生了 The female lead takes revenge without mercy: she ruins the scumbag's manhood, kills her father-in-law, drives her mother-in-law mad, and cripples her sister-in-law. [Strong heroine seeks revenge and schemes for power] + [Cunning, loyal hostage prince] + [Palace and household intrigue, punishing scumbags] In her past life, her consort had an affair with her cousin, a commandery princess, then married her as a secondary wife. He poisoned the princess and had her tortured day after day, disembowele 1.6kReads7.6Score155Shelves
- 46 Splendid Colors of the Embroidered Robe 锦衣卿色 A composed young female commander VS a cold-tongued Eastern Depot Vice Commissioner She is the first woman to become a Commander of the Embroidered Guard. Still young, she enters the imperial court and faces endless doubts. On her first day back in the capital after taking up her post, she crushes a rebellion jointly plotted by the capital’s secret police and the Embroidered Guard, leaving the entire court red-faced. But the clues that emerge from the case send a chill down her spine: Corrupt of 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Keep All That Male Beauty Away! I Only Want the Throne! 男色通通闪开，本宫只想要登基！ [Reborn + strong female lead + true and false princesses + woman ascends the throne + political intrigue] Would being the founding emperor’s only daughter, surrounded by handsome men, be amazing? Lan Zhaoyu says it’s not amazing at all! All she wants is to be a sovereign with no spouse, in the literal sense: an unmarried empress! Her father handpicked legitimate sons from distinguished noble families, all accomplished in both civil and military arts, and adopted them as his sons. They all fawned 2.3kReads9.1Score365Shelves
- 48 System, You Can Nag All You Want, but I'm Not Getting Married 系统你催也没用，我偏不嫁 The day she was bound to the forced-marriage System, everyone waited for Su Yi to accept her fate and give in. The System urged her to marry a powerful man and settle down. She refused. Everyone thought she was a timid concubine-born daughter, forced to flee a marriage. No one knew that she held a damaged old ledger left behind by her maternal grandfather, with a gaze fixed on a series of shocking old cases hidden among grain shipments, canal transport, and collusion between officials and mercha 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The General's Beloved Daughter 将军府的掌上娇 Lu Chang'an's grandmother despised her mother and took Lu Chang'an to raise herself as soon as she was born. At last, when Lu Chang'an was twelve, her grandmother sent her back to her parents. She thought the family would be reunited, but her father and mother showed affection only to her younger sister, leaving her neglected and ignored. When she was seventeen, her mother matched her with a down-and-out man whom her younger sister had turned down. Unexpectedly, after she married him, he showere 773Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 50 The Phoenix Returns: A Conspiracy 凤归谋 [Historical fantasy with a powerful heroine, political intrigue, and satisfying revenge] [No transmigration + no rebirth + no System] Peach blossoms bloom in their splendor, their fiery beauty never fading. The phoenix returns to its home, then takes to the skies once more. Feng Xihe said: From childhood, I studied military texts and histories and trained in horsemanship, archery, and the art of war. Of the four arts, I devoted myself only to calligraphy, because Father said an emperor’s handwr 1.2kReads9.1Score128Shelves
