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- 101 She Refuses to Be a Concubine 她不想做妾 In her previous life, Lu Rong was chosen at fourteen to become the second wife of Xie Xuanlin, head of the Xie family, and was brought to the Xie residence to be raised. Her three stepsons, all around her age, greeted her and called her Mother. Lu Rong faced their three pairs of dark eyes, full of loathing for her, with trepidation, her hands clenched beneath her sleeves. The Xie family had chosen to continue its marriage alliance with the Lu family solely to consolidate its power. After enterin 602Reads8.8Score109Shelves
- 102 The Beiming Family’s Little Maid Is a Money Lover 北冥家的小小丫鬟是财迷 Su Xiaoxiao only wanted to sneak into the Prime Minister's residence to steal something. It wasn't until she got inside that she realized she had gone to the wrong place. As it turned out, there were two Prime Ministers' residences, one belonging to the Left Chancellor and one to the Right Chancellor. From then on, Su Xiaoxiao began a battle of wits with the Left Chancellor. One wanted her freedom. The other did everything he could to keep her. And she still had to find time to deal with th 5.1kReads9.2Score585Shelves
- 103 Forced to Become a Bedchamber Maid, the Ascetic General Wants to Dote on Me Alone 被逼成通房丫鬟，禁欲将军要独宠 Su Qingruo is a maid doing menial work in the Marquis’s Manor. By chance, she helps the heir, Mu Sheng’an, get rid of an aphrodisiac, and is forced to become his concubine. Unwilling to be a concubine, Su Qingruo runs away several times, only to be caught by Mu Sheng’an each time. In the end, she has no choice but to poison him. The valiant general Mu Sheng’an suffers from face blindness. Then one day, he realizes he can remember one particular face. Curious, he wants to find out why. But as the 4.4kReads8.9Score477Shelves
- 104 Shocking! The Heir's Chambermaid Is a Total Knockout 惊！世子小通房是尤物 [One-on-one romance + sweet and satisfying + funny + a husband’s long road to winning his wife back] As the Prince of Li’s young concubine, she knows the Rules for Women and Lessons for Women by heart. The young lady wants to offer herself to him? Clutching a chicken leg, she hides in the corner to watch. “Wow, this is exciting!” With a beauty so graceful and so many sweet words, even a sage would be unable to resist, right? So why hasn’t that man made a move? “Go on, hold her tight and kiss her 262Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 105 Locked in the Deep of Spring 锁春深 He Wucheng was renowned as a true gentleman. She chose him as her consort, cutting off his path to a brilliant future. She compared him to a mere entertainer and mocked him, making him crawl beneath her skirts. She relished the pleasure of dragging him down from his pedestal. She asked scornfully, “How does it feel to get by on your looks?” She wanted to see humiliation and resentment on his face, along with the look of someone forced to endure it. But he smiled, amusement in his eyes, and repli 69Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 106 Reborn as the Marquis’s Legitimate Eldest Daughter-in-Law: My Husband Is a Sickly Obsessive 重生侯门嫡长媳，我的夫君是病娇 [Lighthearted + No angst + No unpleasant characters + A little sweet] After being reborn, Mo Yining is utterly disillusioned. She has seen through the ways of the world and no longer feels the need to prove herself. All she wants is good health and a long life, so she can cultivate her character and live in the present. Who would have thought that Master Xuruo of Baoyun Temple would name her a lucky star and arrange for her to marry into the Marquis of Anping's household as the wife of heir appa 3.5kReads8.9Score405Shelves
- 107 The Little Maid of a Prestigious Family 高门小丫鬟 Shen Xing'er wakes up one morning to discover that she has transmigrated, and into the very novel she loves most! Worse, she's the cannon-fodder supporting female character! Watch her rise from a minor side character to the heroine of her own story, from a household-born servant to a first-rank lady, and from an ordinary commoner after leaving the estate to a wealthy landowner! No angst, no over-the-top drama, just a slow, steady story that makes sense. Come on in! 737Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 108 Sold by Her Stepmother into a Secluded Household, She Clings to the Mistress of the House 被继母卖进深宅，她抱紧主母大腿 Having a father who doesn’t love you isn’t scary. Being sold off by your stepmother isn’t scary either. What’s truly terrifying is stepping into a grand household and becoming a little girl with no one to depend on! Beatings, scoldings, and cold stares are all part of everyday life. But so what? Everyone says this is fate, but Manyue refuses to believe in fate. Follow the heroine’s difficult journey from an innocent little maid to the capable and shrewd head steward serving the mistress of the h 567Reads8.7Score102Shelves
- 109 The Little Maid and the Embroidered Uniform Guard 小丫鬟和锦衣卫 Xia Chu’s whole family are hereditary servants of a marquis’s household. If nothing changes, her descendants will be servants there too. So she has always had a goal: she doesn’t want to spend her whole life as a maid. She wants to buy her freedom, acquire a house and land, and become a little rich woman in ancient times. It’s an ambitious goal, so for now she can only start out as the young lady’s personal cook. But the brocade-clad guard chief next door insists on making advances toward her. W 3.3kReads8.4Score302Shelves
- 110 A Palace Maid’s Rise: Fighting Her Way to the Top 宫女逆袭路，一路斗到底 [Harem Warfare (They fight to the death, until the world is turned upside down) / Not Both Leads' First Love / Devoted Love Later On / Not a Strong Female Lead] A servant is lowly, a servant is base. To escape her fate, Lihua wants to use every advantage she can to claw her way up. What better advantage could there be than the ruler of the realm? See how a little palace maid, battered by fate, carves out an extraordinary path in life. Lihua never imagined that a lowly palace maid like her could 9Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 111 The Sweet Little Palace Maid and the Mad Emperor's Wanton Affection 娇软小宫女，疯批帝王肆意宠 Yao Qing's goal in life: save enough silver to leave the palace. Then she met Xiao Linyuan, the emperor who spoiled her without limit. After that, her whole outlook changed. 130Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 112 The Young Master's Maid Tops the Imperial Exams 少爷的小丫鬟金榜题名了 [The story of a clever, unassuming maid and several young masters: one humble woman's road to a comeback] “Good news! Someone from the Qi family has made the imperial honor roll!” “Are you sure there's no mistake? No one from our household took the imperial exams this year.” “No mistake! It's that maid of yours, Liu Shi. She disguised herself as a man, took the exams, and came out top! The Qi household really does deserve its reputation as a family of scholars. Even one of its maids is so brilli 959Reads9.2Score134Shelves
- 113 The Doomsday Queen Becomes a Maid and Just Wants to Lie Flat 末世女王成了丫鬟只想躺平 This is not a mindless power fantasy. This is not a mindless power fantasy. If that’s what you want, don’t read this! The characters grow in the early chapters, so impatient readers should stay away! [Mad apprentice × beautiful master, political power struggles, no golden finger, male lead goes from puppy-like to unhinged] In her previous life, Xu Yao lived through the apocalypse and was a cold-blooded killing machine. After dying, she was reincarnated as a maid in the Liu household, the home o 1.2kReads8.5Score112Shelves
- 114 The Life of a Farm Girl and Her Maid 农女丫鬟的一生 (No rebirth or transmigration, romance-focused, not a wish-fulfillment story, marriage first and love later, unrequited love) She sold herself into servitude as a maid and only wanted to save enough silver to settle down somewhere quiet. Who would have thought she’d be dragged into the struggles surrounding the eldest young master of the Qin family? After his own relatives conspired to cripple his legs, he fell into despair. She decides to help him escape that hell where people devour one anothe 4.5kReads8.9Score497Shelves
- 115 Two Beauties in a Chaotic Age: A Maid's Survival Guide to the Inner Household 乱世双姝：丫鬟的后宅生存录 Keywords: Maid, Sisters, Surviving in Troubled Times, Household Intrigue Author’s Note: I’m preparing to run a book test soon. The platform is giving my book some exposure, but it’s driving me crazy. They’re keeping it on life support with a measly hundred or two hundred views. These next few days will decide everything. If the book takes off, I’ll stick to the original plan and write a long novel of around a million words. The original setup spanned four generations. The two heroines would rise 237Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 116 The Caged Blue Sparrow 笼锁青雀 [Traditional historical romance, scheming maid rises to power, raising children, powerful man bows his head, sweet romance, possessive love, devoted to her later on, groveling after losing his wife] Zhuxin became the heir’s first woman, and the pretty maids who had been fighting tooth and nail for his favor immediately hated her. Anyone with eyes could see that the Grand Madam was using her to put the Madam in her place. Zhuxin had only just been promoted to first-class maid. She would have glad 138Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 117 The Soft and Graceful Guard: A Seduction to Win the Emperor’s Favor 女侍卫玉软花柔，勾皇帝上位记 A complete, short, sweet story [Transmigrates into a book + Palace intrigue + Face-slapping comeuppance + Coercive marriage + Sweet flirtation and romantic tension + Delicate, fragrant beauty × Sickly, cold-blooded emperor] Shu Wan accidentally transmigrates into a book as a female palace guard, and on her very first day, she catches the eye of her sworn enemy, who is also a transmigrator. To protect herself, she decides to entice and seduce the emperor. Jun Xuan spots a woman in the Noble Conso 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 From Maidservant to Mistress of a Marquis’s Household 侯门主母从丫鬟做起 Liuying was a lowly maid in the Marquis’s household, but Shen Huaixu took a liking to her and raised her to the position of concubine. On the day she was to be carried into his home, she knelt in the snow and cut off her three thousand strands of hair with a pair of scissors. Shen Huaixu, ever the arrogant wastrel, gave her a cold smile. “Shaving your head to become a nun? I’ll see how you crawl back here after leaving the Marquis’s household, begging me to let you in.” Later, disaster struck th 613Reads8.9Score105Shelves
- 119 The Princess Is Alluring and Irresistible; the Mad Dog Forces Her to Marry Him, Then Kneels Until His Legs Break 公主娇媚勾人，疯犬强娶后跪断腿 Forced marriage + dominant male lead and submissive female lead + a groveling pursuit after she leaves + mind-reading Baoyan was once the most beloved princess of Great Liang, but she was bestowed in marriage to a general born a commoner. [That waist is so supple!] [Those hands are perfect for...] At their first meeting, Baoyan was stunned by the man's shameless thoughts. Unwilling to accept this fate, she plotted her escape. But on their wedding night, rebels rose up and slaughtered everyone ar 120Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 120 Married to the Eunuch of Nine Thousand Years 嫁给九千岁 After she transmigrated, she woke up as the wife of the Eunuch of Nine Thousand Years. The moment they met, he kissed her and said, “You are destined to be one of us.” He married her only to repay a debt of gratitude, never expecting that he would come to want to keep her by his side. His physical impairment made him want to possess her all the more fiercely. She held him close and said, “Having you is enough for this lifetime...” 3.3kReads6.2Score397Shelves
- 121 Gourmet: I Transmigrate to the Prince's Estate, and the Sickly Prince Drools with Craving 美食：穿越王府，病娇王爷馋哭了 [Transmigration + sweet romance + alternate world + food + System] After transmigrating, Jiang Yueya goes from a genius chef to a kitchen maid stoking the fire in a prince’s manor. Well, if she’s transmigrated, she’s transmigrated. At least she still has her outstanding cooking skills. And if things get rough, she can always latch onto someone powerful to keep herself alive. But Jiang Yueya never expected that the more she clung to this powerful backer… The more he doted on her. Prince Yu 794Reads9.0Score106Shelves
- 122 The Little Palace Maid Is Truly Beautiful 小宫女她实在美丽 (The rating just came out and is expected to rise) [Heroine reborn + second male lead regrets everything + socially savvy heroine + sensitive, growing Crown Prince + slow-burn romance + everyday life + both leads have past relationships] In her previous life, after Liang Lvzhu entered the palace, Prince Qin took an instant liking to her and doted on her for years. It wasn't until he ascended the throne that she learned she'd been nothing more than someone else's substitute all along. After being 204Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 123 A Hundred Million from the Start, Then I Transmigrated into a Marquis’s Maid 开局一亿巨款，穿成侯府丫鬟 Jiang Yunrong is rich, with a hundred million from her previous life; beautiful, the most beautiful woman under heaven; and blessed with a golden finger that lets her enjoy Pinduoduo anytime, anywhere. There’s just one problem: she’s become the personal maid in the study of the illegitimate eldest son of the Marquis of Yongyi in the Great Wei dynasty. She has no property rights and no right to life, and in this grand mansion, any of her masters might drag her into a room and force themselves on 3.4kReads8.8Score386Shelves
- 124 The Concubine’s Daughter’s Peerless Charm, The Crown Prince’s Boundless Devotion 庶女媚色无双，太子宠妻无度 Xue Ningmeng was a lowly concubine-born daughter in a powerful family. Her birth mother fell victim to the bitter feud between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and Xue Ningmeng herself was drugged. By the time she was ten, she still couldn’t speak properly, so her clan looked down on her and branded her ill-omened. To keep her from hindering the growth of the family’s only heir, Xue Ningmeng was sent to an estate. There, she unexpectedly met the Crown Prince, who had come to the imperial estat 17Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 125 The Sect Leader's Aunt 掌教姑姑 [Female Master and Male Disciple, Forbidden Tension and Push-Pull Romance + Palace and Household Intrigue + Revenge + Class Divide] Xie Yi is the most renowned governess in the entire capital. She has spent her whole life observing propriety, following the rules, and mastering every scheme and subtle maneuver. Because of the Xie family's wrongful case, she serves the Noble Consort and helps the Cui family's young master rise to power, always cautious and never daring to make a mistake. But durin 1.3kReads7.3Score115Shelves
- 126 Tame the Little Bunny, and the Emperor Will Fall for Her on His Own 驯到小白兔，帝王他会自己沦陷 “Xiao Jiao, you’ll have to beg me.” [Tyrant + Devoted Couple + Face-Slapping and Falling Hard + Sweet, Delicate Beauty + Coercive Possession + A Little Love Triangle + A Short Groveling Chase] A foolish beauty who knows she’s foolish VS a powerful, deep-minded emperor who rules with an iron fist Rong Jiao is timid and afraid of death, but also delicate and pampered, with a rosy face and peach-blossom cheeks that make people want to protect her. One day, she is sold to a brothel. The disguised ty 124Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 127 I Became a Maid, and the Playful Second Young Master Saved Himself for Me 穿成丫鬟，纨绔二少为我守身如玉 [Bickering couple + light comedy + farming + devoted love] Free-spirited, sincere young master ✖️ clever little maid who plays the pig to eat the tiger Xia Zhi, a lifelong single doctor and voice actor, transmigrates to the Wen Dynasty after an accident. The moment she opens her eyes, her master is about to sell her to a brothel. Let's see how this little maid levels up and turns her life around. She performs at funerals, trains birds, treats the sick and saves lives, earning her first round of 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 Sold Off, I Opened a Noodle Shop and Made a Fortune 被发卖后，我开面馆逆袭成富婆 [Complete + fictional setting + cozy farming + everyday village life + prosperity through hard work] A friendly reminder: This is a fictional setting, not a serious historical novel! Don’t overanalyze it! Read to relax, and if you’re not enjoying it, feel free to stop. No need to make things hard on yourself, thanks! Here’s the official synopsis: When Xie Xing’er was eight, her own father sold her to a slave broker. The broker told him that a ten-year living contract would fetch only five taels 781Reads6.7Score104Shelves
- 129 From Concubine to Wife 典妾为妻 The practice of taking a contract wife has existed for a long time. As the name suggests, a woman is paid to become someone’s wife and bear him a son. Once the child is born, the contract ends. Someone once asked Qixi, “What separates a contract wife from a general’s wife?” Qixi replied, “A life...” “You want me to love you, but you don’t want to have my child!” “That’s right. The day I give birth to your child will be the day I die. So I want only your love, not a child!” 196Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 130 The Little Empress of the Imperial Kitchen 御膳房小皇后 A top chef at a five-star hotel transmigrates into the body of a little girl, only to be sold into the palace as a lowly maid by a rotten old man. Would a great chef be content with being a palace maid? She should at least be head chef in the Imperial Kitchen! Then she happens to come across a trash can that can listen to her vent. How could she pass up an opportunity like that? But when she starts complaining that the emperor's meals are getting stranger every day, and that he keeps specificall 45Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 131 General, Does My Salary Include Childcare? 将军，我的俸禄有育儿费吗？ Ning An disguised herself as a man and joined the army camp to earn money for her mother’s treatment. Her goals were clear: flatter her superiors, switch jobs, and get a raise! She managed to join the young general Shu Jinhuai’s unit, but never expected to be the reason her commander was poisoned on her very first campaign. To steal the antidote, she snuck into enemy territory alone, earning a body covered in whip marks and a question from the general: “What reward do you want?” Ning An: “Just m 535Reads6.3Score100Shelves
- 132 Shocking! The Marquis’s Young Maid Gives Birth to the Heir’s Illegitimate Eldest Son 惊！侯府小丫鬟，生了世子庶长子 [This new book has just been rated, so the score is low. Please bear with us.] [Devoted couple + sweet romance + raising a little boy + winning her back] One-line blurb: A brooding, love-struck young lord talks himself into falling in love. Full blurb: Su Chanyi, born into a family of physicians, transmigrated one day into the body of a senior maid serving the wife of the Marquis of Yong'an. She watched her words and actions, hid her abilities, and pretended to be ill, hoping only to hold on unt 2.2kReads8.7Score131Shelves
- 133 Imprisoned in the Imperial Harem: The Obsessive Emperor Wants to Claim Me as His Consort 深宫囚：偏执帝王要掳我为妃 (Not a pure romance, tragic ending, purely historical.) Obsessive emperor vs. clear-eyed palace maid. At ten, Yue Chai was still a prince. He told Gong Ning, “Don’t be afraid, A Ning. I’ll give you lots and lots of gold.” At twenty, Yue Chai became emperor. He asked Gong Ning, “Do you like these shackles made of pure gold?” Gong Ning knows an emperor’s heart is impossible to read. With three palaces and six courtyards full of women, his affection can only last a little while. Her greatest wish i 1kReads8.1Score102Shelves
- 134 The Sweet, Seductive Palace Maid Flirts with the Crown Prince, Then Runs Away 娇娇宫女媚又软，撩完太子她就跑 [Clear-headed, calculating palace maid vs. obsessive, lovesick emperor; reborn revenge + palace intrigue + satisfying revenge + romantic rivalry + running away while pregnant + sugary romance + the emperor chases his wife] In her previous life, Yun Xuesu was a low-ranking palace maid. Her fiancé served in the palace as a guard, and she gave him her monthly wages and did whatever he told her. In the end, he handed her over to a wicked concubine to be used as a blood beauty treatment. Locked in a 92Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 135 The Legitimate Wife: Everyone Else Is Worthless, but I'm the Real Deal 嫡妻：所有人皆废，我才是大佬 Zhao Lingmeng was the daughter of a tech tycoon in the modern world. She was wealthy, influential, and brilliant, with a doctorate from one of the world's top universities. Her biggest problem was that her parents had gone from urging her to marry to skipping straight to pressuring her to have a baby. Whenever that happened, Zhao Lingmeng wished she could become a mother without the pain. After her parents once again nagged her about having a child, she was so annoyed that she picked up a novel 3.4kReads8.9Score258Shelves
- 136 The Matriarch's Daily Life of Quietly Enjoying Wealth 主母苟富贵日常 [Tea-loving charmer of a matriarch + drama-queen couple + palace and household intrigue + raising children + everyday life] Drugged by her fiancé, Zheng Ying rushes into the Buddhist shrine and snatches Prince Jin's prayer beads... After a night of wild abandon, she gets her wish and becomes the matriarch of his household. Above her, a ruthless sister-in-law clings to control of the household. Below her, there's a white-moonlight side consort, a reborn woman, and a transmigrator who is a favored 233Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 With an Intelligence System in Hand, Don't Spoil Me Too Much, You Ruthless Power Broker 手握情报系统，疯批权臣别太宠 [Intelligence System + yandere madman + redemption + transmigration + household intrigue + power struggles + true and fake heiresses + rebirth] A disastrous start! Her whole family has been arrested and their property confiscated. Her father was unjustly killed, her eldest brother is imprisoned, her second brother has vanished, her third brother is mentally disabled, and her mother is gravely ill in bed. The only one who seems normal, Yu Wan, is cursed to doom her husbands. She has already cause 421Reads8.8Score104Shelves
- 138 You Want to Make Your Mistress the Equal of Your Wife? I Disown You 抬外室当平妻？这爹不能要了 Her father spent eight years guarding the frontier, then came home with a woman and two children. Xu Roujia tried to awaken the fatherly love he had withheld for so long, but he ignored her time and again, favoring the others at every turn. All he had eyes for was that mother and her two children. She and her mother seemed like the ones who didn't belong. Giving up, she began looking around the capital for noble young men about her mother's age. Then she saw the thirty-year-old, unmarried matern 4.4kReads8.7Score566Shelves
- 139 Auspicious Clouds Around the Moon 卿云绕月 Ten years ago, the cool and aloof young Xie Wei followed his grandfather to Luoxia Manor in search of medicine. There he first met Su Baoyue, a five-year-old bundle of sweetness. The Ghost Doctor joked that his grandfather agreed to a betrothal in exchange for the medicine, and they exchanged marriage tokens and jade pendants. Xie Wei left behind the courtesy name Qingyun, though he thought little of it. Young Baoyue was innocent and curious. Ten years later, Xie Wei held power over the realm. 779Reads6.6Score104Shelves
- 140 Spring Behind Locked Doors 锁棠春 [Palace Intrigue + Pure Historical Romance] Shen Ruotang was Crown Prince Xuan Che’s personal maid. She stayed by his side for twelve years, watching him endure the ruthless struggle for the throne. Step by step, he had risen from a master strategist and Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace to the cold, cruel emperor everyone feared. After Xuan Che ascended the throne, Shen Ruotang became the head palace maid. Everyone in the palace had to address her as Aunt Ruotang. Rumors sometimes circulated i 199Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 141 Reborn as a Marquis's Maid, I Spend Every Night Singing on the Road to Exile 穿成侯府小丫鬟，流放路上夜夜笙 [Farming + pocket dimension + stockpiling + transmigrate from the present to the past + feel-good story + fleeing disaster and famine + sweet romance + doted-on heroine] Shu Lanxun had scraped by for three years in the apocalypse. She had only just awakened her pocket-space ability and hadn’t even had time to level it up before she transmigrated into the body of a lowly maid in a marquis’s household. Her “tenacious vitality” somehow caught the madam’s attention, and she received so many rewards 4.5kReads8.6Score433Shelves
- 142 The Alluring Maidservant on a Trial Marriage 试婚丫鬟妩媚勾人 [Sweet romance, both pure and devoted, household intrigue, servant girl rises to become a concubine, the hero is utterly devoted] Lin Wanyu, the top courtesan at Yangzhou's Zuihua Brothel, was chosen by the Wang family of the capital to test their young lady's prospective marriage match. Her beauty was as radiant as a flower, her skin as smooth as ice and jade… Her task was to confirm whether the Wang family's young lady's betrothed, Lu Huaijin, was capable of consummating the marriage… To compl 4.2kReads6.5Score756Shelves
- 143 The Maid Who Taught Them to Read 启蒙丫鬟 [A lovestruck little maid VS all kinds of fine young men] As the most honest and dutiful maid in the Xue household, Bitao knows that in a sprawling manor, minding your words and actions is the surest way to get promoted and earn a raise. All she wants is to save enough silver for her mistress to grant her freedom, then find an equally honest and dutiful husband and live a peaceful little life outside the manor. Who could have guessed that one fine young man after another in the household would 354Reads8.4Score306Shelves
- 144 I Hate That We Met Too Late 恨不逢君 Su Mengmian accidentally transmigrated to an unfamiliar dynasty and was saved by the doctor of Yueguang Village. As they spent time together, the two fell in love. [The male lead is domineering and ruthless, and is no good person. No golden finger.] On the eve of their wedding, she rescued a man. On their wedding night, a sudden upheaval struck, and he forcibly took her, driving her into one desperate situation after another. 537Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 145 A Maid's Rural Life After Leaving the Household 出府小丫鬟的农家日子 The young master of the Qian household is gravely ill. An old monk predicts that no one born in the Year of the Tiger can remain in the household, so Taohua, a young kitchen maid, is dismissed and returns to Little River Village. But this time, things won't go as they did in her previous life: she won't have her reward money stolen or be married off to her cruel cousin. This time, Taohua will use her cooking skills to earn money and give her parents and eldest brother a better life. 1.1kReads7.7Score108Shelves
- 146 A Former Maid's Farming Life After Leaving the Manor 古代出府丫鬟种田记 [The rating just came out and will rise + farming + native heroine + no golden finger + building a fortune] Cheng Fuer was unexpectedly sold and spent ten years as a servant girl. At last, she traded a scar for her freedom and left the household. When she returned home, she found everything had changed. Her elder brother was in prison, her sister-in-law was frail, her nephew was mute, and the family home was dilapidated, without even an iron pot... Cheng Fuer waved it off. None of that mattered. 434Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 147 The Emperor Who Rose from Nothing Covets My Beauty 草根皇帝贪恋我美色 [Powerful male lead, a founding emperor + book-loving, studious, beautiful heroine + married first, love later + mostly doting with a little angst + both devoted to each other] After Emperor Zhao Mo of Great Yu and his brothers-in-arms broke through the gates of Jing, question marks popped up over all their heads. How were they supposed to get along with a group of beautiful princesses, especially princesses of a fallen kingdom? One was as cold and aloof as a nun, one was bold and beautiful and 128Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 148 Oh No! The Princess Ran Away with Her Young Guard! 不好啦！公主和小侍卫私奔啦！ [This book leans toward wuxia adventure.] [One-line summary: The jianghu adventures of a little princess and her young bodyguard as they travel south in search of her mother.] The only princess of Da Qi has run away! In broad daylight, she crawled out through a dog hole! And she took the best martial arts bodyguard in the palace with her. Princess: Why do you like money so much? Young Bodyguard: Don't you like money? Princess: Well... money is just a worldly possession! After bandits steal h 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 The Mad Tyrant: He Steals the Married Woman He Loves 疯批暴君：强取豪夺已婚白月光 Jun Jingmo, founding emperor of the Great Sheng dynasty, seized the throne with bloodthirsty, thunderous force. The history books say that Emperor Qianxuan was decisive and ruthless, and anyone who refused to submit to him had their entire family executed. Yet he treated his wife, Empress Yizhao, with unparalleled affection, leaving the six palaces empty. According to the records, Empress Yizhao was originally Emperor Qianxuan’s fiancée, but when he was wrongly accused and fell into disgrace, sh 104Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 An Orphan Girl Reborn as a Little Maid 孤女穿成小丫鬟 Abandoned at the entrance to an orphanage at birth because she had a cleft lip and palate, Xia Ying struggled to survive until the age of twenty-eight, only to transmigrate after an object fell from high above. If she had to transmigrate, fine, but why into the body of a little maid? Who would want to be a servant? They have no rights at all. Their masters can beat them to death or sell them off whenever they please. How is she supposed to survive? 7.1kReads9.1Score532Shelves
