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- 51 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—Shelves
- 52 The Lady of the House 女家主 (No romance, not a wish-fulfillment story) Lin Zhiyi was born into this life thirteen years ago and spent all thirteen years in a foolish stupor. (Note: She was reborn with her memories, became foolish after birth, and has been the same person all along.) Then one day, she comes to her senses, facing the deaths of her father and uncle in battle, the emergence of hidden enemies, and an emperor who dislikes her from the start. Lin Zhiyi thinks it over and decides: retreat. So, after making thoroug 789Reads9.1Score134Shelves
- 53 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
- 54 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 1.8kReads6.8Score219Shelves
- 55 I Hijack the Male Lead's Path to the Throne, Kick Fate Aside, and Become Empress 截胡男主登基路，踹翻天命当女帝 [An unapologetic female-led power fantasy. The heroine is a ruthless, ambition-driven fanatic who says little and will do anything for power. She loves no one but the throne. No equally matched power couple, and no stronger male lead: the woman is strong, and the man is weak!] Li Yuanzhao is the most revered Grand Princess of Great Qi, charged with protecting the nation. Born of imperial blood and devoted to political power, she is so formidable that no court official dares meet her gaze. But on 7.9kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
- 56 She Tortures the Madman, Slays Her Way Through the Story, and Becomes Empress 让疯批受虐，她杀穿全文当女帝 [No romance + strong female lead + career-focused story + frail, villainous woman + cold-blooded lunatic + woman disguises herself as a man + a touch of political intrigue + not a brainless power fantasy] After going on a killing spree in the cultivation world in her previous life, Xie Nanzui is sentenced by the Heavenly Dao to become the heroine of an ancient-style novel full of physical and emotional torment. In the original story, the heroine is used by the male lead's first love. The other w 347Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 57 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
- 58 The Imperial Tutor Pursues His Wife: His Beloved Only Wants Revenge 国师追妻，掌中娇她一心只想复仇 Wei Chen was the tyrant’s most ruthless enforcer. Cold and taciturn, distant and aloof, he struck without hesitation, sentencing entire families to execution and staining his hands with blood. But Mu Yaoyao never expected this cruel, vicious man to be so gentle in private. He gave her a rare tenderness and trust, stirring the darkest, most frenzied possessiveness within her. Everyone who had harmed the Mu family had to die. Anyone who dared compete with her for Wei Chen had to die, too! To keep 11Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 59 From the Start, She Has a Knife: The Orphan Girl Slashes Her Way Through Disaster and Famine 开局一把刀，孤女天灾逃荒杀杀杀 (Ratings just opened) [Natural disasters + war + fleeing famine + space + face-slapping power fantasy + no romance] Xu Mingge is transported into an ancient disaster novel, where she becomes a pitiful orphan who is stripped of everything by her entire clan and dies without a whole corpse. In the story, her predatory eldest uncle takes over her home; her cruel aunt steals her dowry; her unscrupulous cousin uses her to pay off his debts; the rest of the clan treats her with cold indifference. Her 960Reads7.6Score101Shelves
- 60 My Ex-Husband Gets to Be a Dad? I'll Marry a Rugged Man Who Can't Have Children and Carry Twins 前夫喜当爹？我嫁绝嗣糙汉怀双宝 [Period] [Second Marriage] [Rugged Husband Dotes on His Wife] [Twins] [Brutal Revenge on the Scumbags] [Size Difference] Zhao Qingqing had been married for seven years without a child. Her mother-in-law beat her and drove her out, while her ex-husband rushed to marry a widow carrying another man's baby. Qingqing immediately turned around and married Han Tie Zhu, the ferocious butcher rumored to be unable to have children, whom no one in the commune dared to cross. Han Tie Zhu seemed cold and sho 518Reads—Score106Shelves
- 61 The Empress Dies a Horrible Death: The Mad Princess Plots to Claim the Empire 皇后惨死：疯批公主谋江山夺天下 Political intrigue + strong female lead + no romance Born into privilege, Mo Xiuqi was the emperor’s legitimate daughter by the empress, and the sunniest, most carefree girl in the capital. She began her studies at three, wrote poetry at five, and excelled at both scholarship and martial arts, never losing to the men around her. The heir she was betrothed to had been her childhood sweetheart. She thought she would be happy forever. On her wedding day, she drank the nuptial wine and lost consciou 25.3kReads8.0Score1.1kShelves
- 62 Aren't We Mortal Enemies? Why Does Lord Ji Love Me So Much? 不是死敌吗？季大人怎么这么爱 [Mad, power-hungry minister X black-lotus noblewoman, two powerful and equally unhinged leads] Jiang Zhimiao was born with a rebellious streak. Clever and perceptive, she never let an offense go unanswered and cut off every way back, all so she could leave home and toy with the emperor, until she ran into one particularly troublesome bastard. Ji Suian was born to wealth and privilege. Brilliant to the point of seeming demonic, he had a prominent family and a smooth career in government, as if he 7.8kReads8.8Score1.1kShelves
- 63 The Fake Princess Stumbles into the Imperial Family, Leaving the Entire Dynasty Enchanted 假皇女误闯天家，全皇朝惊艳沦陷 [Political Intrigue and a Powerful Heroine]+ [The Perfect Imposture]+ [An Ensemble of Young Characters]+ [A Sage’s Selfish Desires] Ten years ago, foreign rebels stormed into Sheng’an. The empress sacrificed herself for her country and named Princess Wei Baoning crown princess, heir to the throne. That same year, lightning struck the imperial mausoleum, and the young princess was buried in a sea of flames. No body was ever found. The following month, a new emperor ascended the throne. Over the n 48kReads9.4Score5.3kShelves
- 64 The Noblewoman of a Great House Rules Above All 世家贵女她权力至上 [Strong female lead + no CP, because that stuff can go die + fun + no System + no transmigration + no pocket dimension + no being reborn] (A practice piece, please be kind) Once you enter the palace gates, you find yourself in a sea of intrigue. Power comes with bloodshed, and sincerity is nothing but the biggest joke. In this scheming imperial harem, who isn’t putting on an act? “I have no wish to compete with the world. Eagles and falcons, do not suspect me.” “Scions of the great clans all str 286Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 65 Tales of Ten Dream Kingdoms 梦十国记 [Transmigration + Powerful Female Lead + Six Male Leads + Alternate-History Political Intrigue + Conquest + Love-Triangle Drama + Spy Warfare + Forced Love + Imprisonment + Everyone Is Scheming] No System, no golden finger, and the heroine has no memories of the original host. She’ll have to rely on her own wits to get out of every predicament. . The first man to imprison her: “Let’s see whether I’m more impressive, or your romantic fantasies are.” The second man to imprison her: “Normal sex is 381Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 66 One Hundred Ways to Deal with Scumbags 人渣的一百种处理方式 If someone asked Yin Qing Suo, “What’s the definition of life and death?” She’d shake her head and say she had no idea. But if they asked her, “Where’s the line between good and evil?” She could instantly pull a million-word tome from some unknown corner and explain it carefully, from the very beginning. Evil comes in all sizes and varieties, and scum has no regard for age or gender. Yin Qing Suo didn’t know where she came from, what she had been, or what she would become. She was born at the bo 786Reads8.8Score106Shelves
- 67 Reborn to Marry an Old Widower, Pampered to Madness 重生嫁给老鳏夫，宠疯 [Political intrigue, ensemble cast, sweet romance, palace intrigue, revenge, taking down villains, a reborn princess marries the brother-in-law she had in her previous life and joins him in stirring up the court] In her previous life, Mu Yunlang was the least favored princess of the Great Qian dynasty, yet she married Shen Hongnian, the top-scoring candidate in the palace examinations, whom every noblewoman in the capital wanted to wed. She thought fate had finally smiled upon her. Little did sh 6.2kReads8.6Score814Shelves
- 68 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
- 69 Disguised as a Man: I Started My Career as an Advisor 女扮男装：当官从幕僚做起 [Soul transmigration, alternate world, woman disguised as a man, rise to power and riches, no romance, political intrigue, no System] Wang Qian transmigrated to the Great Zhao Dynasty. To survive, she assumed the identity of a successful candidate in the imperial examinations named Wang Qingyun and entered a prince's residence as an adviser. Once there, she discovered that the prince was plotting to become heir to the throne. The risk was too great. She had to make a run for it. Wang Qingyun: As 1.5kReads9.0Score269Shelves
- 70 If Father Doesn't Die, How Can His Daughter Ascend the Throne? 父皇不死女儿怎么登基 [Court Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + Villainous Heroine + Dark Younger Brother, a Powerful Team] A scorpion and a venomous snake carve out a path through the treacherous imperial harem. When Li Ruyue was seven, she watched helplessly as the people from the Court of Judicial Review fabricated evidence to frame her mother. Her mother was sent to the Cold Palace, the Qin clan was charged with treason, and all 142 people in Zhaoyang Hall were slaughtered before her eyes. She sat in the blood, watching 3.4kReads9.1Score2kShelves
- 71 Do One Good Deed a Day System: My Host Only Wants to Make Money 日行一善系统，我的宿主只想搞钱 New book this way: The Tycoon System Says I Have to Do Homework Before I Can Spend Money?! [System + transmigration + heroine dotes on hero + childhood sweethearts + feel-good power fantasy + one-on-one romance, both leads’ first love] [Heroine Lu Tianyue (overpowered strength) × hero Chu Xing (soft and adorable)] System’s daily reminder: Master, you must do one good deed every day to purify your heart... Lu Tianyue: No. I don’t want to. I just want to make money and be an ordinary little ri 21Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 72 The Underworld Godmother's Double Life 黑道教母的双面人生 My new story is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Spring of the Phoenix 鸾春 [One-to-one, devoted couple + palace and household intrigue + revenge + strong heroine + reborn + satisfying story + power struggles] The first time Lu Yuanzhi met Sheng Yi, she provoked the cold-faced demon. Everyone thought that sooner or later, she would die at Sheng Yi's hands. Then, in the blink of an eye, Sheng Yi was smiling tenderly at Lu Yuanzhi. "I know you're using me, but I'm happy to let you." "You used yourself as bait to draw me into your scheme. How could you know that wasn't exa 1.6kReads8.9Score197Shelves
- 74 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 672Reads—Score102Shelves
- 75 The Matriarch Found the Book of Life and Death and Asked, Chin in Hand: Who Dies First? 主母捡来生死簿，托腮问：谁先死 [Completed + strong female lead + no CP + takes down scumbags + never lets a grudge go unanswered] Luoyiyi, mistress of the Marquis of Pingyuan’s household, died. Then she came back to life. But the one who returned wasn’t her. It was a fearsome woman who had transmigrated from the apocalypse. A mere maid tries to kill her? She turns around and takes her out with one slash! An old nanny tries to kill her? No discussion needed, she takes her out too! Anyone who wants her dead is getting taken out 2.5kReads8.5Score376Shelves
- 76 Death Erases All Debts 身死债消 [Ensemble cast] [Slightly fictionalized setting] [A heroine who grows over time and isn’t perfect; she’ll suffer setbacks, so don’t read if that’s not for you] A cycling team of 18 is riding across the Sichuan-Tibet route when its leader, Wang Zhengming, a judge at Qinghai City Intermediate People’s Court, suddenly collapses and dies in full view of everyone. The police then find a line of tiny writing at the bottom of Wang Zhengming’s pillbox: “The betrayer will die today.” They suspect his wif 2.4kReads8.8Score293Shelves
- 77 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 872Reads8.0Score108Shelves
- 78 Sky Screen: I, the Princess of Ten Thousand Years, Rebuild the Han Dynasty Three Times! 天幕：我，万年公主，三造大汉！ [Historical Court Intrigue + Nation-Building and Farming + Three Kingdoms Ensemble Cast + Empress + Strong Female Lead + Livestreaming + Satisfying Female-Power Story] Liu Yue, a modern engineering PhD, was born into the body of Princess Wannian in the final years of the Han dynasty. The history books spare her only a few words: Dong Zhuo abused her, and she died after her “passage was torn apart.” In t 96Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 79 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
- 80 You Command a Hundred Thousand Soldiers, Yet Say Women Can't Hold Office? 掌十万兵马，你说女子不能做官？ No romance. The heroine is invincible. A story of farming and nation-building, followed by unifying the realm. I command all the armies in the realm and am just one step away from putting on the imperial robes, and you’re telling me the emperor pardoned me for deceiving him? After grinding away for a full thirty days, Bai Heng rose from a lowly county magistrate to become the prime minister. She commanded an unlimited supply of provisions and supplies, as well as an army of a hundred thousand ab 3.4kReads8.9Score527Shelves
- 81 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
- 82 When Disaster Strikes: Watch Me Become an Empress on Livestream 天灾降世：看我直播如何当女帝 (An ancient-era coming-of-age heroine, focused entirely on building her career, with a slower pace) [No Romance + Strong Female Lead + Cross-World Livestream + Ancient-Era Natural Disasters + Gathering System] As a princess branded a bringer of disaster and exiled for fifteen years, He Su only wants to farm in her fief and live out her days in peace. Unexpectedly, natural disasters strike, and she binds herself to a Gathering System. Drought? Dig wells. Locust plague? Race to harvest. Epidemic? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 My Years as a Zombie Queen 我当丧尸母体的那些年 After Su Mo jumped to her death, she bound herself to a Source System. The Source System turned her into the mother of all zombies, and she recalled all the injustices she had suffered in life. Su Mo’s blood-red eyes blazed with excitement. So they wouldn’t let her live? Then everyone could die with her. Starting with City L, she would flatten the entire planet Mercury. 111Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 84 Transformed into a Southern Song Princess, I Become an Empress for the Ages 变身南宋公主，朕为千古女帝 [Gender Swap] [Single] [Southern Song Empress] [Reclaiming Lost Territory] [Building the Great Song Empire] A history enthusiast transmigrates to the Southern Song Dynasty and becomes Princess Qi, who was originally destined to die at six months old. She is given the name Zhao Lingsheng. After living a peaceful life as a princess for fourteen years, she recommends to Emperor Ningzong that Zhao Lingsheng be named Crown Princess when his adopted son, the Crown Prince of Great Song, Zhao Xun, falls 2.1kReads8.7Score172Shelves
- 85 A Woman-Supreme Village in a Man-Supreme World: I’ll Conquer the Land and Reign as Queen 男尊世界女尊村，逐鹿天下我称王 [Strong female lead + younger men desperately trying to win her back + a touch of power struggle + daughter inherits the throne] Li Yuman is the notorious hell-raiser of Lijia Village. One day, following her family's tradition, she picks up a man by the roadside to be her husband. Her husband is like the pure white snow on a mountain peak, noble and unstained, exactly Li Yuman's favorite type. Having seen her mother's attempt to pick up a man end badly, Li Yuman keeps this snow-like beauty under 595Reads8.7Score103Shelves
- 86 I Just Wanted to Lie Flat and Retire, but They Insisted I Become Empress 只想躺平退休，他们非让我当女帝 [Farming + infrastructure building + empress + power struggles in a chaotic age + ensemble cast + no romance + an apocalypse survivor transmigrates to ancient times + lighthearted comedy] An apocalypse powerhouse transmigrates to ancient times. Qin An is thrilled: time to lie flat and retire! With unmatched martial prowess in one hand and infrastructure projects and technological progress in the other, she soon finds herself surrounded by more and more younger brothers and sisters... And the sto 36.7kReads9.1Score4.5kShelves
- 87 Wealth and Power: The Concubine's Merchant's Scheme 锦绣钱权：庶女商谋录 From five taels in her private stash to wielding control over the empire’s finances, she relied on the simplest principle: Everything in the world can be calculated. Human greed, tangled interests, the rise and fall of dynasties: it is all just a ledger waiting to be tallied. 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 After Confiscation and Exile: Building Infrastructure in the Wilderness 抄家流放后：我在蛮荒之地搞基建 [Spirit Spring Space + Beloved by Everyone + Confiscation and Exile + Building a Settlement in the Wilderness + Fleeing Disaster + Beloved by Everyone (Note: The heroine isn't a saint, has ridiculously high combat abilities, and has eight older brothers)] Feng Jiuyan, daughter of the Duke of Zhen Guo, died in an accident and was bound to a System. She went to three thousand worlds and completed three thousand missions, earning the chance to be reborn. She awakened numerous special abilities and, 4.2kReads9.0Score452Shelves
- 89 The Reborn Tyrant and His Timid Empress 暴君重生，娇气皇后吓哭了 Ming Yan, the delicate youngest daughter of the General's Mansion, has nightmares every day. She dreams that the tyrant will have her entire Qu family executed. She secretly slips a sachet to the prime minister, whom the tyrant values greatly, hoping to arrange a marriage and protect her father and brothers. But on the day the prime minister sends his betrothal gifts, the tyrant storms in with the Dragon Shadow Guards and hurls the gifts over the wall. “Become my empress, and I'll spare their li 6.7kReads7.6Score803Shelves
- 90 The Allure of Spring 春华引 As a princess, Shen Minghua spent her previous life taking “doing whatever she wanted” to the extreme. If anyone crossed her, she would use her power to crush them. Yet she was favored by the emperor, so even those who resented her had to flatter and appease her. With so many sycophants around her, she gradually lost sight of who she truly was. In her previous life, she trusted the wrong person, and one cup of poisoned wine cost someone their life. When she opens her eyes again, she is back in J 460Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 91 New Year Begins 新正引 [Strong female lead + black lotus + political intrigue + tragic love] One night, Shen Ciqiu and Du Jinheng went together to the military camp where the Marquis of Zhenbei had been stationed for years and stole the Tiger Wing Token, the military tally that could command 100,000 Northwestern troops. As a result, the entire Xie clan was sentenced to death. Out of consideration for past ties, the emperor spared the heir's life. At the same time, Shen Ciqiu discovered that the Tiger Wing Token wa 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 After Being Hated Across the Internet, the Frail Beauty Became a Powerful Figure in Both the Immortal and Demonic Realms 全网黑后，病美人成仙魔两界大佬 [Decisive and Ruthless + Satisfying Comeback + No System + Slow-Burn Development + Building a Career] A delicate, sickly beauty has just one year to live from the start. She steals an immortality pill to extend her life, only to discover that the so-called righteous sects are all hypocrites who would devour you without spitting out your bones! She escapes the cultivation world, hoping to live a carefree life. But those sanctimonious hypocrites chase her into the mortal realm? No spiritual roots? 5Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 93 The Famine-Fleeing Grandmother: From Exile to Empress 逃荒祖母，从流放到女帝 Synopsis: [No romance + golden finger + carving out territory in a chaotic age] Mu Wanqing, who was useless and only knew how to eat, transmigrates into the body of an elderly woman in exile. Not only does a golden finger bind itself to her like a bandit, it also ties itself to her lifespan, making it hard even to die. She takes on disciples and earns points, but inflation in the points shop is downright outrageous. All she wants is to keep her head down until she dies of old age, but the wicked 1.1kReads9.3Score103Shelves
- 94 South Branches Toward Dusk, The Regent Has Been Plotting This for Ages 南枝向晚，摄政王他蓄谋已久 [Just received a rating] Complete ◎ [Revenge after being reborn + mastery of medicine and poison + powerful leads who cherish each other + everyone’s a schemer + palace intrigue and political machinations] Important: No stupid villains. Everyone has eight hundred tricks up their sleeve, and the battle of wits is at its peak! In her previous life, Shen Nanzhi, the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo’s family, was blind to the truth. She used a forbidden technique to save a scumbag man, dr 22.6kReads8.8Score2.6kShelves
- 95 Kill! Kill! Kill! I’m Reforming the Court! 杀！杀！杀！朕就要整顿朝纲！ Completed. [Unhinged villainess empress × scheming, devoted general] [Empress + sweet on the outside, ruthless within + powerful female lead + court intrigue + satisfying revenge] A thrill ride from start to finish! The empress is outrageously overpowered in both martial arts and intelligence, rising from wiping out entire clans to uniting the Three Kingdoms! A court-intrigue novel whose blurb alone will make you want to dive in. She acts better than Zhen Huan, puts on a better front than Wei Yi 1.6kReads8.9Score171Shelves
- 96 Help! The Prime Minister's Legitimate Daughter Smiles as She Wipes Out an Entire Household 救命，相府嫡女眉眼含笑灭人满门 (Complete. Clear-headed, unhinged black-moonlight heroine + lovesick, possessive villainous male lead + household and political intrigue + mutual salvation + happy ending) You deliberately seduced me, and I willingly walked into your trap. On the first day after being reborn, Ji Yang opened her eyes and came face-to-face with the man who had opposed her at every turn in her previous life. So she lured him into prison and forced him to do whatever she asked. In this life, she wouldn't just make h 2.1kReads9.2Score282Shelves
- 97 The Villainess Transmigrates to the 1970s, and Her Rough Military Officer Spoils Her Rotten 恶女穿七零，糙汉军官掐腰宠上瘾 [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Face-Slapping + Portable Space + Sweet Romance + Family Life + Unhinged + Hilarious Antics + Feel-Good Story + Strong Female Lead + Trash-Taking + Electric-Shock System + Black-Hearted Beauty + Taciturn, Rugged Man + Golden Finger] Xia Zhi Ning, who'll eat anything but a loss, actually gets killed by a popcorn machine. When she opens her eyes again, she has become a tragic supporting female character in a period novel, with nothing but a pretty face. Her lif 216Reads—Score126Shelves
- 98 He's a Fool, She's Loaded. What's It to You? 他人傻，她钱多，关你什么事 (A sickly but absurdly powerful heroine x a clingy, loyal, green-tea schemer of a hero who goes insane for her; two strong leads, both devoted only to each other, and plenty of sweet romance) Content warning: The story starts slow, then features a lot of political intrigue later on, so proceed with caution! The hero is genuinely an idiot at first, but he gets better. If that's not your thing, don't read. - She gets caught in a last-minute marriage swap, and the concubine still has her eye on the 109Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Radiant Beauty 姝色艳艳 [Main story complete] [Revenge + satisfying read + mutual healing] In her previous life, Gu Mingyue was the Princess Consort of Prince Chen, an undefeated female general, and the peerless King of Xiangchu. Unfortunately, though ghosts roamed the night, the human heart was the most terrifying thing of all. Prince Chen betrayed her, shot her with his own hands, and wiped out her entire Gu family. Her closest friend climbed over her corpse to ascend the imperial phoenix throne. The boy she'd rescue 3kReads9.0Score342Shelves
- 100 A Lone Woman in Troubled Times, Plotting an Age of Prosperity 乱世孤女，谋千古盛世 [Strong Female Lead + No CP + Empress + Ensemble Cast + Political Scheming + War + Power Struggles in a Chaotic Era + Nation-Building and Farming + No Spatial Storage or System + Slow-Burn Growth + Epic Length] Yun Huaijin suddenly became a "corpse" in a world torn apart by chaos. She crawled out of a pile of bodies, with only a child on the verge of starving to death beside her. In this world, nobles lived in drunken indulgence, powerful clans monopolized knowledge, bandits slaughtered withou 24.2kReads8.9Score3kShelves
