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- 51 I Became a Lord in Ancient Times 我在古代当领主 “System, everyone else’s System comes with a pocket dimension and a spirit spring. Why are you stuck with nothing but a ‘junk recycling’ feature?” “Host, stop complaining! That bag of leftover takeout malatang would be a lifesaving delicacy in your territory!” While other transmigrators were throwing money around in ancient times, Gu Mingyue was roaming the world, picking up “trash” with her dirt-poor System. An unfinished building that had sat untouched in a corner of the city for ten years? Sh 61Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Group Transmigration: My Sisters and I Built an Unstoppable Great Xia 群穿：我和姐妹卷出了个超强大夏 [Modern-to-Ancient Transmigration + Group Transmigration + Infrastructure and Military Industry + Farming and Management + No Romance + Defending the Homeland] Five sisters and one armored vehicle unexpectedly transmigrated to the Great Xia Dynasty. From the start, they were in the middle of a desert, their GPS was down, fuel was running low, and the dynasty before them was entirely fictional! But these women, fierce as eagles, had nothing to fear! No money? They'll earn it themselves! No food? 207Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 The Bottle King Rules the World: One Wave of My Chubby Paw, and We Charge! 奶瓶大王御天下，胖爪一挥跟朕冲 [Adorable kids + satisfying court intrigue + four-year-old princess ascends the throne and changes fate + a cute little army upends the court + System stockpiling and nation-building + imaginative history] Feng Chiling, the four-and-a-half-year-old empress of Great Jin, was exceptionally clever. Ever since birth, she had often suffered the same nightmare. She dreamed that her brainless elder brother from her previous life ascended the throne, that their father’s grave was desecrated, and that 50.4kReads8.8Score8.8k14d adds
- 54 The Legitimate Daughter Stuns the World 嫡女惊盛世 [Just received a score, it’ll go up soon] [Young power broker VS noble family’s legitimate daughter] [Political intrigue|Both fall for each other|Suspicion and love|Ensemble cast and power struggles] Cui Shuyuan, the legitimate daughter of the Qinghe Cui clan, is gentle and refined in public, but a master of political intrigue in private. No one knows that beneath her gentle exterior lie an unyielding spirit and boundless ambition. With her father and brothers under suspicion and the court’s sit 8.4kReads8.4Score1k14d adds
- 55 Legendary Fantasy: One Man Quells a Chaotic Age 传玄：只身镇乱世 [No System. Fantasy. The female lead transmigrates into the body of someone from the lowest rung of society. She must go through many trials to grow strong enough to found a dynasty and become emperor. Long and detailed, so read at your own risk.] Li Chonglou transmigrates to an ancient, unfamiliar world. The land is in turmoil, with demons and monsters roaming freely and evil spirits multiplying. She transmigrates into a poor farming family that can barely afford to eat. 666Reads6.8Score10114d adds
- 56 Don’t Be Rash, I’m a Professional at Rebellion 别冲动，造反我是专业的 [Female-led story, no romance, no System, political intrigue, socialist development] [Road trip arc (complete), development arc (ongoing)] Qin Yanning never imagined that in her lifetime she would transmigrate to an ancient feudal society, and into the most unfortunate cannon-fodder family of all. From the start, the difficulty was set to hell mode. Her father was demoted, and her eldest sister's husband was snatched away by the powerful. The whole family was as soft as dough, and anyone could c 2.8kReads7.5Score24714d adds
- 57 Transmigrated as a Bandit Wife, I Build Up the Borderlands 穿成土匪婆，我在边关搞基建 [Pocket dimension + woman disguises herself as a man + two strong leads + both leads are chaste + sweet romance] Tang Xiaoqiu spends all her savings stockpiling enough supplies to fill a room, only to kick the bucket on the very first day of the zombie horde's arrival. When she opens her eyes again, she has brought that roomful of supplies with her and transmigrated into the body of a bandit chieftain's daughter, in a mountain stronghold with nothing to its name. Looking at her brothers, who nev 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 The Commandery Princess Builds Up Her Fief 郡主在封地搞基建 Turbulent times + nation-building + farming + war + political intrigue + no romance The isolated city of Shuofang, abandoned by the empire and standing on the brink of national ruin, awaits a modern female engineer. She feeds the city with grain, crossbows, and simplified Chinese characters, then declares to the northern frontier with nine-hundred-pace Fubo crossbows and a thousand-strong Mo Dao battalion: “Even mortals can forge blades, and a single spark can start a prairie fire.” 17Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 59 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? 212Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 60 The Lady Magistrate 女县令 Lu Xueyin's twin brother, Lu Chenyang, mysteriously disappeared after placing first in all six imperial examinations. Just then, the imperial edict appointing him county magistrate arrived at the Lu residence. To keep her brother's official position, Lu Xueyin disguised herself as a man and took his place as county magistrate. From then on, her official career took off without limit. The people loved her, she rallied the rebels and pacified the borderlands... Lu Xueyin was deeply worried. When w 80Reads8.8Score1514d adds
- 61 Fourth Calamity: Transmigrating into a Chaotic Age to Become an Empress 第四天灾，穿越乱世做女帝 [Nontraditional fourth-wall-breaking apocalypse + System + strong heroine + no romance + infrastructure building and farming + ensemble cast] Shi Qi’s version: To save her parents, Shi Qi agrees to the System’s offer to transmigrate to a chaotic age and play the role of a “savior.” At first, she thinks going from the apocalypse to a time of turmoil is just surviving somewhere new, and helping others survive, too. Easy! But once she truly sets out on this path, she begins to feel things she never 360Reads7.4Score10114d adds
- 62 A County Magistrate's Poverty Alleviation Diary: From Poverty to Prosperity 县令扶贫日志，从贫困到小康 Lin Miao was an ordinary college student. After graduating, she got into an accident while delivering food and died. She was reborn in her mother's womb with memories of her past life. [Village development + infrastructure + improving people's lives + System + evading natural disasters] Jiangyuan County is so poor that the plaster is crumbling off the walls, and every villager wears a worried frown. Not enough food? No problem, I have high-yield rice. No county school? We'll build one. No money? 173Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 63 I Told You to Flee the Famine, Not to Rise Up and Become Empress! 叫你去逃荒，没叫你翻身做女皇！ [No Romance + Reborn + Empress System + Spatial Farming + Nation-Building] Amid the chaos of a troubled age, the country is beset by internal and external crises, and the people are living in misery. In her previous life, Lin Xinmiao gave her life to defend her country against foreign invaders and died on the battlefield, only to end up with her family destroyed and thousands condemning her. In this life, she refuses to remain beneath others. After binding herself to the Empress System, she star 99Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 64 Forced to Rebel, Who Says You Get to Have Your Way? 被逼造反，谁惯着你呀 The eldest daughter of the Yin family has always claimed to be ill in public. Since she knows a little medicine, she accompanies the family patriarch on military campaigns, with the late emperor’s express permission. When the late emperor was trapped during a campaign, the eldest daughter’s father died on the battlefield trying to rescue him. One year after the new emperor ascended the throne, the Yin family was massacred. The eldest daughter of the Yin family refuses to surrender without a figh 420Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 65 End of the Qin Dynasty: A Warring States Empress, Starting Her Conquest in Bashu 秦末：乱世女帝，从巴蜀开始争霸 [Due to the author's health problems, the story only reaches the point where the protagonist becomes a queen. The author has added a 16,000-character outline of what happens next, as well as around 30,000 characters of side stories. The novel is complete, but readers worried about an unsatisfying ending should choose carefully.] [No romance + no System + farming in the early stages, vying for supremacy later + political intrigue + serious tone + ensemble cast + powerful female lead] [Content war 638Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 66 The County Magistrate: I Have a Dream of Prosperity and Strength 第一县令：本官有个富强梦 [No System + farming and infrastructure building + no romance + slow-paced] Yongxin County has been poor for so long that no one ever imagined it could become wealthy one day. The local tycoons have been rich for ages, but when Magistrate Lu arrives, they find themselves facing a choice: become poorer or get even richer. Even a fool knows which to pick, but Magistrate Lu's scheme has a catch! The wealthy families of Longyou Prefecture tremble. Who on earth is making all the money? By the time th 1.2kReads8.7Score12514d adds
- 67 The Marquis's Illegitimate Son Turns the Tables in the Imperial Exams 侯府庶子科举逆袭 Wen Rugui is a concubine in the Ningyuan Marquis's household. Seeing that the household's ship is about to go down, she spends all day trying to use connections to secure her position, terrified that if the child she's carrying is a girl, she'll be traded away too. She watches the women in the household live shackled by rules, their lives worth no more than grass. When she gets a chance to go out, she runs away with the baby she is carrying. And Xun Huan is that baby... 527Reads7.3Score12114d adds
- 68 Desert of Another World: Becoming the Lord 异界沙漠，成为领主大人 No CP!!!! + strong female lead + infrastructure building + farming + sister-con Developing her own territory in the desert. Pulled into a game for no apparent reason, Pei Yunjin witnesses the destruction of Blue Star. For her younger sister, she ventures into another world to fight for an uncertain future. She throws herself into infrastructure, building homes, defensive fortifications, and powerful weapons. After her sister arrives, her territory flourishes more and more. A growing number of pe 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Reborn in a Chaotic Age: From Maid to Empress 魂穿乱世，从丫鬟逆袭成为女帝 (Just finished) [Strong Female Lead + Ensemble Cast + Eastern Jin-Inspired Setting + Political Intrigue, War, and Nation-Building] [Content Warning] First, the protagonist grows over time, and the story is a slow burn, not a wish-fulfillment romp. Second... This is a story about an empress! The female lead is the savior of the world! If you think the female lead is “meddling” when she stands up for others despite being powerless, if you think a maid like her has no right to “overstep her station 374Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 70 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 87Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 71 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—14d adds
- 72 After I Transmigrated, I Conquered the World with a Nation-Building System 穿越后，我靠基建系统称霸天下 [Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Transmigration + System + Nation-Building + Empress + Warring States + Cheats + No CP] Zhong Yun transmigrates into a starving refugee in a land torn by war, with a nation-building System thrown in as a bonus. Determined to live well, Zhong Yun gets to work on the path to power and unifying the realm. She crushes bandits, takes cities, controls prefectures, fights for the realm, and wins the people's hearts. Before long, the entire war-torn world is left baffled by Zho 840Reads8.0Score10814d adds
- 73 You Want Me to Be a Tribute Maiden? I Choose to Rule as Empress 要我当贡女？我选女帝当政 [Power! It's the best tonic for women! She can't do without it!] [A native heroine + a transmigrated woman who willingly submits to her + a rivalry between men + no romance] Three years ago, Emperor Zhaoping of the Great Yong personally bestowed the title of Commandery Princess upon Wu Zhao. She was forced to lead twenty thousand respectable women north as tribute to Beihuang, to relieve the siege at the gates of Bianjing. After leaving the capital, Wu Zhao led her private army of women in a fie 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Create Your Own City 请创建属于你的城市 No killing. No revenge. No wiping out entire families. The protagonist, Shi Tie, is gentle and humble. He is interested only in maintaining and expanding his city, and shows his bravery only when protecting its safety. You can call him a pushover, but he reads people well. He devotes himself to building a city, creating an age of peace and law in a chaotic world where strength reigns supreme. No heroine, no romance. After suddenly finding himself in unfamiliar surroundings, Shi Tie reluctant 151Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 The Straight-Talking Host Wants to Rebel, and the Villainous Cannon Fodder Are All Here to Help 耿直宿主要造反，反派炮灰齐帮忙 [Transmigrate into a Book + Feel-Good Story + Infrastructure and Farming + Rebel and Rise to Power + Ensemble of Cannon Fodder + No Romance, Just Getting Things Done] After years of hard work, she had saved up a tidy sum and was ready to return to her hometown and lie flat. Instead, she transmigrated into the world of a novel and lost her memory. By the time her modern memories returned, the novel had already ended. Her family had been exiled, and she was in a death cell, waiting to be beheaded —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 From the Start, I Crafted a Golden Crow by Hand, but This Ming Dynasty's All Wrong 开局手搓金乌，这大明画风不对啊 [Apocalyptic Survival + Creating Monsters + No Romance + Self-Interested Female Lead + Infrastructure and Political Scheming + A Touch of Ensemble Cast] (Not a wish-fulfillment novel. Slow-paced, focused on infrastructure, and the spirit beasts do not take human form.) Zhang Xiaoyi opens her grades page, closes and opens her eyes, and finds that she’s been angered to death and landed in the Chongzhen era of the Ming dynasty, where famine, drought, and warfare are all on the way. Zhang Xiaoyi, wi 142Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 77 Amazing! The Poverty-Alleviation Expert Becomes a Farming Legend in Ancient Times 惊！扶贫大佬在古代靠种田封神了 [Infrastructure Building + Farming + System Space + Punishing the Scum + Feel-Good Story + No Romance + Career-Focused Heroine] Yang Liu, a poverty-alleviation secretary, died unexpectedly. When she woke again, she had become a widow. A single, unmarried young woman had turned into a widow with two children! Her home was bare, wind whistled through every wall, and there wasn't a single grain of rice in the house. Two little ones were crying to be fed. “Mom, I'm hungry...” Yang Liu opened the ric 57Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 78 After My Soul Transmigrated to a Chaotic Age, I Slaughtered Every Noble in My Path 魂穿乱世后，杀神屠尽诸卿公 [Epic historical ensemble + transmigration + court intrigue + powerful heroine + no romance + ruthless] In her previous life, Shen Xu was a butcher of the battlefield, leaving rivers and mountains soaked in blood. She flooded cities and left a million corpses in her wake. Though she spent her life fighting and killing, her achievements eventually made the emperor fear her power. In the end, he granted her a sword, and she took her own life. When she opened her eyes again, her soul had fallen int 38Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Transmigrate into a Natural Disaster: My Pocket Dimension and Superpowers Come to the Rescue 穿越遇天灾，空间异能来帮忙 Pocket dimension, natural disasters, water-based superpower, farming, infrastructure, no romance When the apocalypse arrives, Chu Qingning awakens two rare superpowers. She thinks she's the chosen one, only to die in the jaws of a zombie. After transmigrating, she becomes the daughter of a military family. Unfortunately, her mother died young, her father fell in battle, and her brother, stationed at the border, is falsely accused of treason! Kidnapped by bandits? This stronghold is nice. It's my 65Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 80 After I Transmigrated into a Famine, I Won by Taking It Easy with Cultivation 穿越灾荒后，我靠修仙躺赢了 (No CP + strong female lead + feel-good power fantasy + cultivation + supernatural abilities + 10086 + the heroine is not a good person, I repeat, not a good person!) The lazy powerhouse Chen Yu was bored one day and insisted on drinking beer, eating fried chicken, and watching a fellow cultivator undergo a tribulation. But she got struck by a tribulation bolt for being inconsiderate and ended up in another world. She transmigrated straight into the body of a poor little girl named Xiaohua. The 149Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 81 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, 1.3kReads8.2Score21614d adds
- 82 Three Kingdoms: The Unhinged Princess Topples Dong Zhuo's Stronghold 三国：疯批公主她掀了董卓老巢 Liu Ying, a military academy student from the twenty-first century, opened her eyes in the body of a princess who had hanged herself and died. The marks on her neck had barely faded when the door burst open under the kick of a rebel soldier, sword in hand. She grabbed a gold hairpin, knocked over a folding screen, and stabbed the soldier in the thigh, leaving a bloody hole. Then she casually swiped some saltpeter and sulfur from an alchemist and gave Dong Zhuo a “welcome gift.” The three-hundred 1.7kReads6.8Score20814d adds
- 83 Reborn as a Six-Year-Old Little Strategist, My Tyrant Dad Begs Me to Carry Him 穿成六岁小军师，暴君老爹求带飞 [War for supremacy in a chaotic age + no romance + political intrigue] The realm falls into chaos, six provinces are carved up, and the roads are strewn with starving corpses. Xue Chujiu, a Daoist physician at the peak of her powers, shrinks into a six-year-old beggar on the verge of starving to death. Just when she thinks she’ll die before she can make a difference, a beggar stuffs the last half of his black steamed bun into her mouth. “Little girl, eat up. You’ll need it for the road!” Xue Chu 408Reads—Score10014d adds
- 84 Ruling from the Court: Your Majesty, Let Me Hold Power Over the Realm 临朝听政：陛下许我权倾朝野 [Strong female lead and equally matched leads, political intrigue, duty to country and people, fictional historical drama, ensemble cast in troubled times, devoted to each other, with a focus on the career plot] [Decisive female general × restoration emperor who obeys only the heroine] Song Wanyue was born into a military family. When she returned victorious to the capital, she was met not with honors, but with an imperial decree ordering her entire family executed. She had trusted the wrong fam 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 This Sister’s the Real Deal: She Said She’d Rebel, and She Did 这妹妹能处，说造反她真造反 Shang Shaoyan had wanted to be a lazy freeloader ever since she was old enough to know better. So she kept pushing her older brother until he became a domineering CEO. At long last, she achieved her dream, only to transmigrate into the body of a miserable young woman in ancient times. She turned to the older brother who had come here with her. “Big brother, I’m counting on you again this time.” Her brother promptly flopped onto the ground. “I’m done for. This time, I’ll enjoy a peaceful life whi 194Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 86 The Princess and Her Obsessive Bodyguard Flee Famine, Then Unite the World 公主带偏执护卫逃荒后一统天下 [Farming + Sweet Romance + Fleeing Famine + Pocket Dimension + Empress + A World Map to Help Me Conquer the Globe] (Also titled: After Transmigrating, I Built an Everlasting Great Xia) After the birthmark on Li Lingwei's palm suddenly turns into a pocket dimension and a transmigration countdown appears, she goes on a shopping spree, stockpiling supplies like crazy. She thinks the apocalypse is coming, but instead she transmigrates into the body of Great Xia's princess, whose kingdom is on the ve 341Reads8.7Score10214d adds
- 87 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 8kReads8.2Score91914d adds
- 88 After They Mistook Me for a Witch, I Opened a Clinic 被当女巫后我开了个诊所 Deep in the Silvermoon Forest stands a wooden cabin, with a sign hanging by the door: “Appointments for treatment. Pay the fee with a token of your people.” Elves pay with the Water of Life, dragons with shed scales, dwarves with ironware, and unicorns with their own fallen hair. The patients who come are a strange assortment: an elven prince cursed by a troll, a dwarf miner with black lung, an ancestral dragon coiled by the door waiting for ointment, and more. The heroine transmigrated here and 3.1kReads6.3Score37414d adds
- 89 My Dear 檀郎 Yun Nixi is implicated when her relatives’ estate is confiscated and becomes a slave. Sold to the Huan household, she serves as a personal maid to Huan Xi, a young nobleman from a distinguished family. Using the family’s inherited knack for pretending to be a spirit medium, Nixi makes money by sticking close to the young master, all while secretly admiring her cousin Shen Chong. She plans to buy her freedom, reclaim her grandfather’s farmland, and return to a life of independence. As the politic 2.3kReads8.9Score33814d adds
- 90 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 64Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 91 Rising Amid Chaos: Restoring the Tang Dynasty 乱世崛起：我在大唐重整江山 [Late Tang turmoil + strong heroine + nation-building + political strategy and power struggles + ensemble cast + built-in stats] In August of the first year of Guangqi, all of Great Tang mourned its former glory. Emerging from a tunnel through the river of time, Xiao Buwei looked back and saw a hellscape of mountains of corpses and rivers of blood. As the poem goes: “How tragic the events of the past fifty years; the common folk have suffered grievously.” Xiao Buwei had just finished adjusting 772Reads6.6Score10814d adds
- 92 Transmigrated Heiress: I Build My Way to Ruling Daheng 穿越嫡女：我靠建造称霸大珩 A top modern architect is reborn as the legitimate daughter of a Minister of State, bullied by her stepmother and half-sister and trapped in a seemingly hopeless situation. Chi Zhiyu turns her fate around with her extraordinary talent for construction! She joins the Ministry of Works to reform building methods and restore schools, delivering face-slapping justice to her sneering detractors. She travels to the frontier to build sturdy fortresses and prevent flooding, then heads south to tame the 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 The Empress Transmigrates: Conquering the World in a Chaotic Age 女帝穿越，她在乱世逐鹿天下 No romance + strong female lead + powerful heroine + light ensemble cast + infrastructure building + satisfying read + transmigration Yun Zhi was a princess who grew up in the Cold Palace. In the Cold Palace, you either erupt out of silence or perish in it. To survive, she used every means at her disposal, killed her father and brother, and took the throne everyone wanted. But after only a few years on the throne, she died of illness. When she opened her eyes again, she was Yun Zhi, the newborn 1.8kReads8.9Score18514d adds
- 94 From Peasant to Founding Empress 从泥腿子到开国女帝 The rating is low because it just came out. (Chaotic times + war for supremacy + ensemble cast + matriarchal world + one female lead, many male partners) Ming Shuhuang, a mechanical engineering PhD, dies and wakes up in Mingjia Village, a remote backwater. Her five older brothers are notorious for being the last men in their family line. Their grandfather, Jun, declares that if they can't have a daughter next time, he'll divorce their grandmother and marry someone else. Ming Shuhuang is born ami 22Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 95 The System Came to Kill Me, but I Became an Empress! 追杀系统，结果我成了女帝！ [Empress] [No romance] [Political intrigue and conquest] [Decisive and ruthless] [Livestreaming the past] Synopsis: Her mother, a former princess of the previous dynasty and empress, has disappeared. Her father, the current emperor, seems like a gold-digging husband. And there's a stupid System trying to kill her. She should have been a pampered noblewoman, but instead she became a minister's daughter, surrounded by mysterious court officials and enemy nations watching hungrily from every direct 153Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 96 The Rough-Hewn Hunter’s Lucky Marriage 糙汉猎户的旺夫妻 The good news: The former owner of a farm has been reborn with max-level experience! The bad news: She starts with only ten eggs, and a snake has its eye on her. On the first day, she crouches by the stove, checking the eggs’ temperature. The villagers react: “Has she gone mad? She’s hatching eggs herself?” On the twenty-first day, eight chicks hatch. Her awful relatives react: “You’ll never keep them alive. Just wait and see!” By the third month, the hens are laying eggs like crazy. The local b 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 After Calling Off the Engagement, I Built a New City in the Western Regions 退婚后，我在西域建新城 Shen Qingwu, a noblewoman of Liangzhou, is publicly jilted and exiled to the Western Regions to die. They laugh that I’ve lost my reputation, that my father’s clan has fallen, that I’m unarmed and doomed to be buried beneath the yellow sands. But they don’t know I have the Civilization VI System, and that I can turn everything I see into data. In this forgotten outpost of Dry Springs, I gather seven disillusioned people, each with a remarkable talent: a water-control fanatic, a lone-wolf general 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Me! A Little Orphan! I Rose Up and Crowned Myself Emperor! 我！小小孤女！起义称帝！ [No CP romance + orphan girl fleeing famine + mind-reading + political intrigue + empress] (The heroine is ruthless. She kills someone in the very first chapter, so don’t read if that bothers you.) The heroine, Yun Sheng, flees famine in the early part of the story, launches a rebellion in the middle, and becomes emperor in the end. A severe drought strikes Dingzhou, leaving the people homeless and destitute. What should have been an ordinary drought becomes the spark that tears the Great Shuo D 130Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 99 Transmigrate to a Primitive Tribe and Become Chief with My Special Powers 穿越原始部落，凭异能当上首领 [Farming + primitive society + wood-based supernatural powers + husband to raise + strong female lead + political intrigue + mountain foraging + building from nothing + secret crush + sweet romance] Male lead: A Yue, a primitive tribesman Female lead: Tao Ning, a modern woman from the 26th century A girl abandoned by her family in the 26th century transmigrates into a primitive tribe. This is a story of surviving against the odds and building everything from nothing. From surviving in the wilder 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 The Grand Princess Was Banished to Her Fief, So I Became Empress 长公主被贬封地，我转身成女帝 [Strong Female Lead + Revenge and Regret + Empress + No Romance + War for Supremacy in a Chaotic Era] Chu Ning transmigrates into the Great Chu Dynasty as a princess who has been confined to her fief. Carrying the grudge of her mother’s murder, Chu Ning unexpectedly awakens the strongest Empress System, and begins a fiery journey to become an empress who conquers the realm. With a decisive hand, she takes control of Changle Commandery, her fief, and builds a solid power base. Declaring herself Q 671Reads—Score10214d adds
