Novels like I Came to the Capital to Break Off the Engagement
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- 1 Xia Suofangyan 夏锁芳妍 His father, the Marquis of Pingnan, has been sentenced to death, his mother, Commandery Princess Haiyan, is under house arrest, and he has been banished to a remote land. Does their marriage contract still stand? She breaks off their engagement when he falls on hard times. Is she kicking him while he's down, or does she have her reasons? To escape the royal marriage bestowed upon her by fate, she accompanies a princess to a distant land as a bride. Amid boundless snowy plains, Eagle Sorrow Ravin 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Xiaoci Xian's Collection of Novellas About Love 小辞仙中篇爱情小说合集 I highly recommend the sixth story, "Who Does the Lilac Bloom For?" She said, “The Ding family was wrong to substitute a daughter born of a concubine for the legitimate heir to save face. Your Highness was wrong to accept this marriage under pressure. This mistake began in the capital and must end in Qianzhou. Now that Your Highness has reclaimed your rightful place, this mistake should come to an end as well.” Her gaze was clear and candid, without the slightest trace of resentment, only the lu 161Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Empress in Commoner's Garb 布衣皇后 She was an empress, yet dressed in plain clothes and worked the fields in the imperial palace gardens. The people adored her, and even the emperor, who had never liked her, fell for her. Yet one autumn, she suddenly passed away! Who was it? Who killed this young empress, whose heart held all the people under heaven? After the empress died, the emperor spent every night singing and reveling with his consorts. Had he truly moved on, or was there something else behind it? 93Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Wild Lilies Bloom in Spring Too 【野百合也有春天】 Important note in advance: This is not a story with two female leads! The platform settings are wrong! The male and female leads are devoted to each other, with absolutely no divided loyalties! As Zhou Xiaoyu looked at the profound sorrow in Song Chuyu’s eyes, she realized with absolute clarity that he still hadn’t moved on. That girl, Cen Baihe, had long since taken root in the softest part of his heart like the most tenacious vine, bound to him by blood and impossible to tear away. At that mom 71Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Empress Zhu the Sharp-Tongued 皇后朱怼怼 Empress Zhu the Quick-Witted 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 After the Selfish Legitimate Daughter Forced Her Sister to Marry in Her Place, the Concubine’s Daughter Turned the Tables... 自私嫡女逼妹代嫁后，庶妹逆袭了...... After a selfish legitimate daughter forced her younger sister to marry in her place, the concubine-born sister turned her life around... 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Even the Demon Venerable Gets Scammed by a God 魔尊也被神碰瓷 Even the Demon Lord Was Scammed by a God —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 How to Win Over Moyuan, the Most Aloof Beauty in the Three Realms 论如何攻略三界第一高岭之花墨渊 A guide to winning over Mo Yuan, the Three Realms’ most unattainable beauty —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 I Pretend to Be a Bad Student, but the Campus Belle Won't Leave Me Alone 我都装成学渣了，校花还要缠着我 I Pretended to Be a Poor Student, but the Campus Belle Still Won’t Leave Me Alone 2.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 10 A Socialite’s Substitute Plan 贵妇的替身计划 The Madam's Substitute Plan —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 A Collection of Beauties 红颜集 The Pipa’s Lament: I once paid for my husband’s studies with the money I earned playing the pipa. But on the day he placed second in the imperial examinations, he flung a divorce agreement in my face. As I left, the prime minister’s daughter laughed in his arms and humiliated me in every way. Not long afterward, he was tortured to death by the prime minister’s daughter. She, in turn, was exiled to a desolate land, where her fate remains unknown. I was behind it all... A Fairy Falls to Earth: I 84Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Day the Crown Prince Cut Ties, I Opened the Ledger of My Past Life 太子斩情那日，我展开了前世账本 The Day the Crown Prince Cut Off His Feelings, I Opened the Ledger of My Past Life —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Germaphobe CEO's Fiery Sichuan-Chongqing Pepper 洁癖总裁的川渝小辣椒 The Germaphobic CEO's Spicy Little Sichuan-Chongqing Pepper —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Marquis's Lost Pearl Rules the World with Phoenix Grace 侯府遗珠的凤仪天下 The Marquis's Estate's Hidden Jewel Rules the World 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Turns Out My Scheming Childhood Friend Has Been in Love with Me for Eight Years 原来腹黑竹马心悦我8年了 Turns Out My Scheming Childhood Friend Has Been in Love with Me for Eight Years —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 To My Resilient Stars 致我坚韧的星辰 When everyone was against me, the brilliant senior stood by my side without wavering, even turning against his childhood sweetheart for me, a girl from the countryside. Follow Wen Shuning’s journey from a left-behind child in a rural village to the national stage. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Bedroom Secrets 闺房秘闻 Bedroom Secrets 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 We're About to Get Married, Yet He's Still Secretly Testing Me 我们快结婚了，他还在偷偷测试我 We're Getting Married Soon, Yet He's Still Secretly Testing Me —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 After Our Whirlwind Wedding, He Turned Our Marriage Certificate into a Love Letter: From Marriage First to Love, He Spoils Me More and More, Just as Fate Intended 闪婚后他把结婚证当情书写，先婚后爱越宠越命中注定 After Our Whirlwind Wedding, He Turned Our Marriage Certificate into a Love Letter. We Married First, Fell in Love Later, and His Affection Made Us Feel More and More Destined for Each Other 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 In the Tenth Year of Secretly Loving Me, He Chased Me from the Classroom Door to the Wedding Venue 偷偷喜欢我的第十年，他从教室门口追到婚礼现场 In the Tenth Year He'd Secretly Loved Me, He Chased Me from the Classroom Door All the Way to Our Wedding 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 After Returning from My Parents' Home, I Stumbled Upon My Husband's Secret 娘家回来碰见老公的秘密后 After Returning from My Parents' Home, I Discovered My Husband's Secret 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Mischievous Princess Loves Her Wedding Night 调皮公主之就爱洞房花烛夜 The Mischievous Princess Just Loves the Wedding Night —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 He Exudes an Abstinent Aura. I Laughed for Three Days, Then He Kissed Me Until I Cried for Three Days 他自带禁欲气场，我笑了三天，后来被他亲到哭了三天 He Has an Aura of Abstinence. I Laughed for Three Days, Then He Kissed Me Until I Cried for Three Days 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 After the Breakup, I’m Surrounded by Admirers 分手后，我桃花漫天 After the Breakup, I Have Admirers Everywhere 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Answer to the Meaning of Life 关于生命意义的答案 The Answer to the Meaning of Life 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 A Love Song of the Jianghu: My Heroine Is Too Fierce 江湖恋曲：我的女侠太凶猛 A Love Song of the Jianghu: My Female Heroine Is Too Fierce —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 After the Bet Took Effect, I Got a Boyfriend 赌约生效后我多了个男朋友 After the bet took effect, I gained a boyfriend —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 I Can No Longer Keep My Secret Identity Hidden 本宫的马甲捂不住了 I Can't Keep My Secret Identity Hidden Anymore —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 After Being Publicly Humiliated on the Forum, I Was Confessed to by My Childhood Friend 论坛社死后，我被竹马表白了 After being publicly humiliated on the forum, I was confessed to by my childhood friend 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 To Keep My Childhood Sweetheart from Becoming Someone's Backup Goddess, I Wrecked the Torture-Romance Plot 为防青梅变接盘女神，我把虐文剧情干崩了 To Keep My Childhood Sweetheart from Becoming a Tragic Romance's Sacrificial Goddess, I Wrecked the Plot —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 How Long Until I Forget That Memory? 多久才能忘记那份记忆 How Long Does It Take to Forget That Memory 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Shock! Three Years After We Broke Up, She Showed Up at My Company with a Baby 惊！分手三年后她抱着娃堵我公司 Shocking! Three Years After Our Breakup, She Showed Up at My Office With a Baby —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Concubine's Scheme: A Talented Woman's Face-Slapping Revenge 庶女谋：才女打脸记 I am Li Shuying, the peerless beauty and talented young woman whom everyone in the capital admires. Yet because of a concubine-born daughter with a different soul, I became a laughingstock throughout the city. She recites the poem Bring in the Wine and whips up mandarin-duck hot pot. Even my childhood sweetheart and fiancé has fallen under her spell. Everyone mocks me: “So much for the capital's greatest talent. You can't even outshine a good-for-nothing concubine's daughter!” Little do they kno 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 After Rejecting the Crown Prince, I Was Courted by Someone Else 拒婚太子后，我被人求娶了 Before the imperial marriage decree, the Crown Prince said he was marrying me only for my family's status. If that's the case, I don't need to be Crown Princess. Fate has its own designs. As it turns out, the person I was looking for from the very beginning was never the Crown Prince. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Born as the Legitimate Daughter, I’m Doted on Without End 穿成嫡女宠不休 I’m Su Ruojun. I was transported into a historical romance novel I’d read, becoming the cannon-fodder villainess whose life was stolen by her reborn legitimate older sister, and who was disfigured and tortured to death. In my previous life, she climbed over my corpse to ascend the throne as empress. In this life, she returned reborn and sneered as she tried to shove me into a pit of fire. “Crown Princess? You’re only fit to marry a wastrel!” But what she didn’t know was this: I had a modern supe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Sandalwood Bones 檀骨 I was a wild weed, but thanks to a benevolent master, I took human form. When we met again, he had become the revered Imperial Preceptor. I said I wanted to repay him, but he told me humans and demons belonged to different worlds. Later, his eyes reddened as he pinned me beneath him, calling me little demon over and over... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 The Heroine's Dream Script: A Chambermaid's Rise to Female Imperial Preceptor 爽文女主剧本：通房丫鬟逆袭女国师 I was a bedchamber maid offered up by my own mother to the beds of the powerful. Then, on a rainy night in a mass grave, I tore open my scabbed wounds and was reborn. Everyone laughed at my deluded hopes of currying favor with the capital’s most eligible young master. They didn’t know I gripped a bloodstained pen, using every stroke to rip away the aristocratic clans’ pretense of respectability and climbing over their backs to become the empire’s first female Imperial Preceptor. I would make eve —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Addicted to Being Your Substitute: The Princess's Replacement Lover 替爱成瘾：长公主的替身男宠 A man often appears in my dreams. Dressed all in black, he kneels before me and calls me A Li. I searched the entire capital, but all I found was an unfaithful counterfeit. If he’s not the right one, then I’ll find another. If one won’t do, I’ll try two. If two won’t do, then three. One of them is bound to be the right one. Later, just when I thought I’d finally found him, the Third Prince of Jing appeared. Why does he look so much like him, too? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Bandit's Wife Isn't Getting Away 压寨夫人休想逃 A year ago, I saw a woman in trouble and drew my sword to save her. It was love at first sight. A year later, I reunited with my beauty, but this wasn’t a chance encounter. It was a trap. Why were there two brides on my wedding night? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Reborn as the Villainess, I Changed My Fate with My Dancing Skills 穿成恶毒女配后，我靠舞技逆天改命 On my first day reincarnated as the villainess, I kicked aside the original script. The second male lead was brooding and possessive? The heroine was a fake innocent? The hero was blind and heartless? Fine. I’d be the villain! “I tore up my fragile-little-flower act and pinned the second male lead against the throne on the eve of his coronation. ‘Jiang Li, either marry me or kill me. Pick one.’ “Later, the history books recorded: Empress Wen Cheng, née Su, conquered the realm with a single dance —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 My Childhood Friend Entered the Palace Disguised as a Eunuch, but I Only Love the Old Emperor 竹马扮假太监入宫，我却只爱老皇帝 I was born with a face capable of bringing kingdoms to ruin, and I was determined to climb into the emperor’s bed on the back of a favor every woman envied. The old emperor doted on me beyond reason. My childhood sweetheart castrated himself and became a fake eunuch for my sake. Everyone called me a seductress, but there was no room for a shred of true affection in the palace. He held me every night as I fell asleep, yet over a single rumor, he personally sent me to the Cold Palace. He knelt at —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 The Cold, Aloof Grand Tutor Is Tamed into a Puppy by the Bossy Princess 清冷太傅被霸道公主驯成小狗 I fell for Pei Heng, the aloof, dignified, strict, and old-fashioned Grand Tutor. Every day, apart from eating and sleeping, the two things he cared about most were teaching and avoiding me. I was willful and spoiled, the sort who wouldn’t turn back until I hit a wall. He was silver-tongued, winning everyone over with his eloquence. All I wanted was to part my lips and win him over. Later, I accidentally discovered the “secrets” he’d hidden in a compartment: “Today I met a little ‘tigress.’ She’ 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 43 I Disguised Myself as My Brother to Get Close to My Fiancé, and Now He Seems to Have Fallen for Me 假扮成哥哥接近未婚夫，他好像被我掰弯了 The Second Prince was my intended fiancé, and I’d been in love with him at first sight since childhood. To get close to him, I disguised myself as my twin brother and went to school with him. Then rumors started circulating around the palace that the Second Prince was gay! On our wedding night, he actually abandoned me and spent month after month at my brother’s secret estate. So who cheated on whom: did I cuckold myself, or did my brother cuckold me?! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Ten Years Turned Plum Wine Sweet: The Young Lord's Thirty-Six Strategies to Win His Love Back 梅子十年酸成糖：少主的追妻三十六计 The female thief Xie Mingyin was ordered by her master to sneak into Biyun Manor and steal a treasure. Who would have thought the young manor lord, Qi Yu, would hold a sword to her while shielding his clothes, forcing her into a fake marriage? A sham wedding shouldn’t have stopped her from continuing the theft. But the young lord kept trying to seduce her every few days, and it was seriously messing with her head. Only when he said, “She’s my one weakness,” did Xie Mingyin realize that the theft 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 I Got into the Wrong Bed, but Married the Right Man 爬错床，嫁对郎 A young girl's panicked face stared back from the bronze mirror, her skin pale as jade, a pair of entwined lotuses embroidered on her green silk trousers. I clutched a pink bellyband embroidered with mandarin ducks at play, listening to footsteps approach from beyond the door. Cold sweat beaded on my forehead. “Young Master, Madam wants to see you!” The young page's shout sounded like music from heaven. I had transmigrated! I had transmigrated into the body of a maid named Li Luo. According to t 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Bite Me, Ginseng Spirit: A Kiss for the Young General 咬我一口，人参精诱吻小将军 When the ginseng spirit A Heng plucked a thousand-year-old root to sell for money for her benefactor, the reincarnation of the young general, his silver armor stained with blood, held a medicine pestle in his hand... Three hundred years later, the spirit ginseng he had protected was going to sell herself to show her love for him. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Reborn as a Disposable Eunuch, I Heard the Brooding Prince Say He Likes Me 穿成炮灰太监，阴郁王爷说他喜欢我 I somehow transmigrated into a book. I became a eunuch sent to steal Prince Yu's secret documents. I was standing in the study, completely bewildered, when a large group of people burst through the door. Prince Yu led them, his face dark with anger, and demanded that I hand over what I was hiding. I stammered and refused to take it out no matter what. Then the guards tried to snatch it from me, and the object in my arms hit the floor. A page from a very explicit comic was clearly visible to ever —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Heir Refused My Proposal, So I Married His Father 世子拒婚，我转嫁世子他爹 On the night of the Lantern Festival, I risked my life to save the emperor. He offered me a reward and said he would grant any request I made. Everyone thought I would ask him to arrange a marriage between me and Wei Zhao, heir to the Duke of Wei. After all, everyone in the capital knew how obsessed I was with him. But Wei Zhao wasn't the one I asked the emperor to marry me to. It was his father, Wei Yuan. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Reborn as a Palace Maid, I Used Accounting to Rise Through the Harem Ranks 穿成宫女，我靠当会计宫斗升职 A plate of sour apricots went missing from the imperial kitchen, and they were going to execute me, the palace maid in charge of preserved fruits. I dropped to my knees, already prepared. I took a ledger from my sleeve and presented it with both hands. “Eunuch, please take a look!” “Every debit has a credit, and debits must equal credits!” 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Weed Spirit Ran Off with the Divine Lord 野草成精拐走神君 I had barely taken human form when I was struck by heavenly lightning. I stumbled into a mountain god's temple, where I spotted a delicate-looking young scholar standing by the offering table. As I clung to his leg and begged him to save me, I was already scheming how to eat him. But after slobbering all over him, I froze in shock. Help! I think I've profaned a divine lord! —Reads—Score—14d adds
