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- 1 The Empress Awakens: From the Start, She Sees the Blood and Tears of Future Feminism 女帝觉醒：开局看到后世女权血泪 The Empress Awakens: Seeing the Blood and Tears of Future Feminism from the Start 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Strong-Armed Chef Guards the Frontier, and I Snatched My Husband 大力厨娘守边关，夫君是我抢来的 (Farming and Food + Building Wealth + Super Strength + A Touch of Ensemble Cast + Live-in Son-in-Law + Sweet Romance) (Fair-skinned, beautiful, super-strong cook VS gloomy, lovesick, scheming heir) Modern master chef Li Lanxue transmigrates to an ancient border region. No System, no pocket dimension, no golden finger, and not even the original owner's memories. All she has is tremendous strength. A mute old woman takes her in, and she faces the government's forced marriage policy. Thus begins he 204Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Princess Is Determined to Ascend the Throne 公主殿下一心登基 Male rivals competing for her + a battlefield of jealous suitors + adored by everyone + all the men are chaste + all the men are possessive and secretly ruthless One ruler x a group of ministers who willingly follow her, one after another Ever since she was little, Grand Princess Zhu Yu has wanted to become emperor. To that end, she recruited soldiers, raised a private army, poisoned her own father, and sharpened her blade for the crown prince Only to transmigrate into a book on the eve of her g —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 From the Start in a Bandit Stronghold, I Cheat My Way to Empress 开局土匪寨，一路开挂成女帝 [Strong female lead transmigrates + no romance + empress + female lead has maxed-out combat power] She had just been fighting a boss with her team in the apocalypse when she suddenly transmigrated, only to be picked up by bandits. But who was she? She was a force to be reckoned with in the apocalypse. Did the bandits really think they could control her? In no time at all, a pile of bandits lay sprawled around her. She glanced at the little girl trembling nearby, then planted a foot on a bandit a 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Concubine’s Daughter Takes Charge: I Want Wealth and the World 庶女掌财，财富和天下我都要 A modern fashion designer transmigrates into the body of Liang Wanqing, a concubine-born daughter of the Marquis of Yongning’s household who is bullied by everyone. She had planned to keep a small fabric shop, earn a modest living without drawing attention, and get through life in peace. But her stepmother is vicious, the legitimate daughter is jealous, and rival traders frame her, closing in at every turn with the intention of killing her. Thugs extort her, rumors ruin her reputation, and som 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 After Seizing the Throne, I Sent the Tyrant to a Class on How to Treat Women 篡位后，我送暴君去上男德班 On the first day after she transmigrated, Lin Zheng was locked in a golden cage by a tyrant. After dying from overwork as an office worker, she transmigrated into a book as the tyrant’s beloved canary. He said he loved her and would give her the entire realm, then asked what she truly wanted. She said, “Then I want the throne.” The tyrant wasn’t pleased. No matter. She could take it for herself. - A month after she transmigrated, Lin Qingyan sat on the Dragon Throne and received the court o —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 I Abandoned Immortality for Business and Helped the Empress Conquer the World 弃仙从商，操控女帝霸天下 [Xianxia + alternate history + transmigration midway through + empress] Also known as: The Toughest Man in the Jungle Born into poverty, Long Yi was cruelly abandoned by his father and raised by a tiger immortal. He soon became king of the jungle, and a moment of carelessness made him famous throughout the Great Xia Dynasty. He accidentally transmigrated to the Triassic Period and lived there alone for 173 million years. He practiced the ultimate treasure of immortal cultivation, the Primordial 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 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—Shelves
- 9 War Smoke Over the Imperial Palace: The Phoenix Descends Upon the World 帝阙烽烟：凤临天下 #FemaleLead #NoRomance #FemaleDominance #Empress #PoliticalIntrigue #PalaceIntrigue #LegitimateEldestPrincess #CourtIntrigue #StrongWoman #PowerStruggle In the Great Yong Dynasty, women rule, and the throne passes only to women, never men. She is Xiao Lingran, the legitimate eldest princess and crown heir, born to rule. Named heir at one month old, she is despised by her mother, the empress, who sees her as a burden and a shackle. Alone in the inner palace, she has only her iron-willed grandmoth 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Great Drought and Famine: I Eat, Drink, and Make Merry 大旱灾荒年：我吃喝玩乐 [Food + Seclusion + System + Winning Over an Empress + Forced to Become Emperor] After three years of drought, corpses litter the land. I hide away in a mountain valley, enjoying hot pot and barbecue every day. I only wanted to lie low until the weather returned to normal. Who knew the “Gourmet Emperor System” would suddenly show up? [Today's task: Enjoy a serving of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. Reward: Ten dan of drought-resistant divine potatoes] Tears streaming down my face, I tucked in. The n 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Cut It Out! You're Just a Random Extra Who Transmigrated Into a Book 别整活了！你只是个穿书路人甲啊 Ye Jiuli transmigrated into a book with a pocket dimension, while the original heroine was reborn with a System. What was that? The heroine had stockpiled a hundred thousand dan of grain? Helping disaster victims is everyone’s duty! Ye Jiuli promptly took all the grain… Shen Suqin: You shameless thief! Ye Jiuli: No need to thank me! … The heroine had found a gold mine and planned to mine it in secret? Ye Jiuli figured that was hard work, better suited to a rough-and-tumble person like her. Shen 40Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 12 Taking the Throne: I Helped My Childhood Sweetheart Become Empress 临朝：我助青梅当女帝 [Empress + Love Triangle + No System + Political Intrigue + Not Overpowered + Definitely Complete] After the Marquis of Dingnan, once renowned for its military achievements, fell from favor overnight following its defeat in the Southern Frontier, even the Chancellor's household regretted its engagement and called off the marriage. But this gave Zhao Xi, the future Empress, her chance: she brought the young heir of the Marquis of Dingnan into her own residence. From then on, Qin Yu, a peerless st 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 I Want You All to Eat Your Fill, but You Want Me to Be Emperor 想让你们吃饱，你们想让我当皇帝 [No CP + A little political intrigue. This story has no CP, but there will be children. It’s still set in a historical world where the family and the state are intertwined. The level of development and production makes anything else unrealistic, and it wouldn’t suit the setting.] Excerpt: “What’s your name?” Her eyes looked disdainful, but her actions said otherwise: she drank it all in one go. “I am of the Zhao clan.” Shen Sinan pursed her lips. “Oh, Young Master Zhao. What are you here for?” Z 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Female Emperor in a Chaotic Age: From the Start, at a Mass Grave! 乱世女帝，开局乱葬岗！ Transmigration to another world + strong heroine + no overpowered golden finger + flight from famine + warfare My name is A Zi, also known as Wei Zi. A Zi is the daughter adopted by a farming family in a mountain village, while Wei Zi is the legitimate imperial princess of Wei, the foremost of the four kingdoms. Wei Zi transmigrates from another world to the modern world. One moment, she's just been born to the most esteemed empress of Wei. The next, she opens her eyes and finds herself buried i 658Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 15 The Grand Princess Wants to Usurp the Throne Every Day 长公主她每天都想篡位 One heroine, many male leads [Decisive, career-driven, irresistible powerhouse heroine] [Many one-sided crushes] Huo Ninghan was once Great Qi's most illustrious Grand Princess of Changle. Born with extraordinary strength, she followed her father into battle from childhood to overthrow the previous dynasty's tyrannical rule. At just twenty, she was granted the title “Guardian of the Nation” after a great victory over the Shuo Kingdom. But several years later, the father who had once doted on her 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 I Saw My Banishment Coming, So I Snuck Into the Imperial Treasury and Took Everything 预知流放不要慌，潜入国库搬光光 After struggling to survive the apocalypse for twenty years, she was reborn in the womb and became the legitimate daughter of the prime minister’s household. She grew up safe and sound until the age of sixteen, and thought she would live comfortably in this life. But over the past month, Su Xiaotang had been having the same nightmare again and again. In the dream, the prime minister’s household was raided, and the family was exiled thousands of miles away. As supporters of the crown prince, the 447Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 17 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 122Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 18 A Billion Tons of Supplies in Her Spatial Realm: Princess Jingkang Goes on a Rampage 空间亿万吨物资靖康公主杀疯了 [Chaotic times + transmigration + spatial storage + supernatural abilities + decisive killing + strong female lead + no romance + nation-building + conquest + no suffering] In the nuclear-war apocalypse of 2040, Zhao Xiyan possesses a top-tier spatial storage packed with billions of tons of supplies, a complete modern industrial system, fighter jets, and weapons. Just after wiping out the military bases of fifty nations, she transmigrates in the wake of a cataclysmic explosion! Overnight, her so 11Reads—Score123Shelves
- 19 Exiled, She Slaughters Her Way Through Ancient Times with an Armory at Her Side 流放后，她携武器库在古代杀疯了 [System + stockpiling supplies + powerful female lead + exile and refugee flight + miraculous doctor + infrastructure building + farming + disguising herself as a man] [This is a story about a female emperor] One day, the mercenary Murong Qin transmigrated into the body of the Crown Prince of the Great Ling Empire, only to find herself caught up in a wave of exiles. If this place has no room for me, I'll find somewhere that does. Giant snakes, assassins, refugees, and disasters came one after an 2.6kReads9.0Score415Shelves
- 20 My Wine Gourd Connects Past and Present, and I Help an Exiled Prince Seize the Throne 酒壶通古今，我助流放王爷夺帝位 An Iron-Blooded Prince from Ancient Times and a Modern Corporate Wage Slave: A Connection Across Time, Stockpiling, Infrastructure, Famine, and Farming Wage slave Wei Chuchu unexpectedly inherited a bronze wine pot, only to discover that it connected to the Great Li Kingdom two thousand years in the past! On the other side of the pot was Duan Wenbo, Prince Yi, a legendary war god. The new emperor viewed his family as a threat, and they had been exiled. With too little food and clothing, they wer 1.5kReads7.6Score163Shelves
- 21 Trapped as an Exiled Criminal’s Wife, I Drive an Emperor and Empress to Ruin 穿成流放罪妇，我逼疯一代帝后 Political intrigue + exile + spatial storage + natural disasters + infrastructure building Lu Baiyu, who had grown weary of life in the apocalypse, blew herself up and died. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated to the day before her family was to be raided, becoming the vicious younger sister-in-law of the biggest villain. Things went disastrously wrong from the start. With her husband's family, she faced exile at best and execution at worst. Her birth family was full of wolves: a scu 22.2kReads8.8Score3.2kShelves
- 22 Traveling Between Two Worlds: Trading My Way to the Top 两界穿越：从交易开始遥遥领先 [Travel Between Two Worlds]+ [Lighthearted]+ [Fictional Historical Setting] Qin Tian transmigrated to an ancient world and started making a fortune by trading all kinds of resources. Beautiful women threw themselves into his arms one after another, but he wouldn't give in. He was just playing around... He never wanted to conquer the world, but there was always some troublemaker causing problems. They forced him to buy guns and artillery in the modern world and go back to crush his enemies. Then 316Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 23 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 363Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 24 Impersonating a Fake Prince, I Survive by Relying on History After Transmigrating 冒充假殿下，穿越后靠历史苟命 [Transmigrating into a stateless nobody: no male lead, no romance, no golden finger] [An ordinary college senior + an imaginary dynasty; a modern-day cheerleader in a purely historical society; a growing female lead, slow burn. Plenty of flaws and self-inflicted anxiety early on. She’s a very ordinary girl, not ruthless and decisive, and she doesn’t treat human lives as worthless.] [Three locations: Linhai County → Yizhou → the capital] The main story is complete. The bonus chapters involve a 3.5kReads8.3Score316Shelves
- 25 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 343Reads8.7Score102Shelves
- 26 My Supermarket Connects Past and Present: I Stock Up and Spoil the Ailing Prince 超市通古今，我囤货娇养病弱皇子 [A Cast Across Time + Stockpiling Supplies + Food + Farming + Infrastructure] He Qingmiao graduates straight into unemployment and gets kicked out by her stepmother. All she inherits is the small grocery store her mother left her. The store is in such a remote location that no customers show up for ten days or half a month at a time. He Qingmiao is so broke she's nearly starving, and she's about to shut the little store down for good. Then one day, a very unusual customer walks in. A young man t 158Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 27 A Moment’s Impulse Made Me the Founding Empress 一时手痒后，我成了开国女帝 [Strong female lead + warlord hegemony in troubled times + nation-building + ensemble cast] A prophecy descends from the heavens: a time of chaos is coming. Lu Zhao had only wanted to find a Beggars' Gang and get by. But someone said she was destined to become the Human Emperor. So Lu Zhao embarked on her path to conquer the realm amid the chaos. Strategist 1: “It's just a lord. We can replace her whenever we want.” Later: “I would gladly become the lord's sword, and die without regret.” Strateg 8kReads8.2Score919Shelves
- 28 You Told Me to Replace Rice with Mulberry, and Now You're Leaving the Jiajing Emperor Dumbfounded! 让你改稻为桑，你把嘉靖气懵了！ Zhao Ning transmigrates into the Ming dynasty as a vice minister of works. The moment he opens his eyes, he's sent off to Zhejiang, where he is ordered to carry out a national policy: replace rice with mulberry trees. Above him, the Yan faction squeezes him dry; below, the people are driven from their homes. On all sides, officials scheme against him, while Emperor Jiajing watches coldly from above. Everyone is waiting to see him become cannon fodder. · If the people aren't allowed to live, then 54.9kReads8.4Score3.1kShelves
- 29 Wuxia Crossover: The Thrilling Life of Murong Fu, the Irresistible Heartthrob 综武侠：万人迷慕容复的爽文人生 (Female-oriented power fantasy + gender-swapped Murong Fu from Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils + a wuxia crossover: Butterfly and Sword + The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng) Murong Fu was an ordinary female university student in the twenty-first century. Then, one day, she transmigrated. When she opened her eyes again, she had arrived in Northern Song times, at Swallow Island. The era, place, and surname all matched, but when she felt around below, she nearly cried. Good heavens, didn't you notice you'd gotten 230Reads8.5Score116Shelves
- 30 Bridging Past and Present: I Help a Handsome County Magistrate Rise to Power and Fortune 通古今：我带美人县令升官发财 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 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 369Reads7.4Score101Shelves
- 32 Qing Transmigration: The Noble Consort Gave Birth to the Virtuous Consort's Baby 清穿：贵妃娘娘生了德妃的娃 Synopsis: Su Xi really likes Qing dynasty transmigration novels, and the Fourth Prince is her favorite, of course. But that doesn’t mean she’d survive more than four chapters after transmigrating! She never expected to transmigrate so far back that she would become the Fourth Prince’s mother. After transmigrating, she was renamed Wanshu. Transmigration version: At her family’s estate, Wanshu was racing horses with her older sister, enjoying the feeling of freedom, when a servant came to report t 702Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 33 Exiled, I Empty the National Treasury and Seize My Enemy's Empire 流放：搬空国库夺了仇人江山 [Completed + spatial storage + endless supplies for escaping famine + natural disasters + strong heroine + dual personality + face-slapping + adorable child] Jiang Qingshu transmigrates into the body of a fool who has suffered relentless abuse and been forced to conceive a child with a stranger. Just as the emperor is about to sentence her to death, her family manages to hide her in the countryside. When the truth comes out, the General’s Mansion is to be confiscated and the family sent into exi 2.2kReads9.2Score303Shelves
- 34 Livestreaming My Flee from Famine: I Disguised Myself as a Man and Ascended the Throne 直播逃荒：女扮男装的我登基了 Xu Yungui transmigrates into the body of a scholar who disguises herself as a man, then leads the entire village on a refugee journey, feeling utterly panicked. Luckily, she has a livestream System, and the viewers in her room always come through in the clutch, helping them make it safely along the way. But the group keeps growing, and Xu Yungui is at a loss. She can count the capable managers around her on one hand. How is she supposed to lead everyone from now on? Just then, the livestream vie 4.2kReads8.6Score645Shelves
- 35 Life in the Qing Palace: Consort Duan of Emperor Kangxi's Daily Climb Up the Career Ladder 清宫之康熙端嫔的升职加薪日常 First life: Dong Jingshu was the third-ranked Duan Concubine among Kangxi's seven imperial concubines. She rose through the ranks on the strength of her family background, but had no children. Later, the women who had once been beneath her surpassed her and became consorts, and she faded into such obscurity in Kangxi's harem that she might as well have never existed. Second life: Dong Jingshu married her childhood sweetheart and had a child, but her husband cheated during her pregnancy, and thei 4.8kReads8.7Score393Shelves
- 36 A String of Suicidal Stunts, and the Reborn Heroine Doesn't Want to Live 一路作死，重生女主不想活 Open your eyes, close them, and a day has passed! Close your eyes and never open them again, and a lifetime has passed! Close your eyes, open them again... and you're reborn! After a lifetime of deceit and rivalry, having repaid her debts, avenged her wrongs, and settled her affairs, Wang Yun happily went to her death... But when she opened her eyes, she was reborn! Wang Yingzhang came back to life furious. So you won't let me live in peace? Fine. Then don't blame me for being ruthless. In her p 2.3kReads9.1Score240Shelves
- 37 Your Majesty, Did You See My Spoiler Comments? 女帝陛下，臣的弹幕剧透了吗？ After an accident, Zhou Mingyuan, a master's student in Marxist studies, opened his eyes again to find himself a down-and-out young man in an alternate dynasty. The good news was that he had acquired a miraculous ability: he could hear villains' inner thoughts. The bad news was that the beautiful, yet ice-cold, empress seated on the imperial throne seemed able to hear every one of his private complaints, too. With his ability, he climbed to the top step by step and helped the empress bring peace 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Even the Men at My Feet Are Hard to Handle 裙下之臣也难为 [Cool, brilliant, ambitious female lead × Multiple male leads: Childhood friend, a cunning and devoted crown prince + A younger court official she saves + A rival general who loves and hates her] Gentleness is her weapon, chasing fame and fortune is her instinct, and the imperial court is her chessboard. She is the first female official in the Jing Dynasty, a cool, distant moonlight who saves the prime minister’s son from dire straits and willingly lets herself be used. She is the only person th —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Peace Across the Land 天下岁宁 My birth mother wanted to travel to Yingdu to reunite with her family, so she planned to sell me to a Turkic merchant as a slave. The Turkic merchant pinned me underfoot, my wrists bound behind my back with a rope, while my mother clutched a few ingots of patterned silver and climbed into the escort carriage without looking back. My father, overcome with grief and indignation, hurled himself at the mottled yellow-earth wall. It suddenly came crashing down... Many years later, she was ennobled as 53Reads—Score187Shelves
- 40 After Losing My Job, I Made a Fortune Trading with People from the Past 失业后，我和古人做生意致富逆袭 [Connections Between Past and Present + Business and Prosperity + Cozy Daily Life, Romance Included; Mostly Daily Business Management, with a Subtle Romance That Isn't the Main Plot] To save money for her grandmother's medical treatment, Tang Li moves back to her grandmother's farmhouse and unexpectedly discovers that its courtyard connects to ancient times. Unemployed Tang Li starts doing business with people from the past, selling them the village's unsold produce, modern snacks, milk tea, fru 3.3kReads7.8Score303Shelves
- 41 EN Empress: Enough Fooling Around! Who Put the Imperial Robe on Me? 女帝：胡闹！谁把龙袍给朕穿上了 No CP + powerful heroine becomes emperor + satisfying throne-grabbing story + ruthless and self-serving Di Qingyu is a woman whose only wish is to become emperor and seize power, standing above all others. The history books describe this disastrous princess as “cunning to the point of being demonic, debauched and lawless, a scourge to the imperial court, and scheming to become emperor. She is a disgrace and an aberration among the women of the world.” At eighteen, she was made Grand Princess of 232Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 42 As a Villainess, I Marry a Treacherous Minister and Let Loose After a Bride Swap 当恶女嫁奸臣，穿书换亲彻底放飞 [One devoted couple, marriage before love, strong heroine and hero, raising children, lighthearted everyday comedy, unhinged villainess, smiling schemer] Shen Xixi transmigrates into a book and becomes Pingyang Junzhu, the villainess of the capital. On the very day she transmigrates into the book, her marriage is switched and she’s drugged. She doesn’t waste a moment or hold back her temper. She brings the whole Duke’s household along to catch the adulterers. On the spot, she dumps the scumbag h 2.8kReads8.3Score327Shelves
- 43 What Evil Could a Deposed Empress Have in Mind? She Just Wants to Rebel 废后能有什么坏心眼，想造反罢了 [Dual rebirth + political intrigue + ensemble cast + powerful leads + character growth] In her previous life, Yun Tong died in the snow. Beside her lay the rival she had fought her whole life, and standing before her was the emperor she had protected all her life. The victor becomes king, the loser a criminal. Since she had chosen this path, she accepted its end. But natural disasters and calamities struck, the emperor was incompetent, corrupt officials held power, and the people could barely su 698Reads8.1Score102Shelves
- 44 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
- 45 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 97Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 46 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
- 47 I Get Rich Just by Listening to People Brag, and It Feels Amazing 听别人装逼就能暴富，爽翻了 Lin Zhixia was a rookie in the workplace. Two months into her career in real estate sales, she still hadn’t sold a single home and was on the verge of starving. The top salesperson bragged to her, “You’re not cut out for this. I sold five homes in my first month!” [Ding! Congratulations, Host! You’ve received five chances to close a real estate deal!] A colleague mocked her bargain-bin clothes. “What kind of bag is that? Did you buy it for a few dozen yuan at a street stall? Look at mine, it cos 5.7kReads8.7Score662Shelves
- 48 The General Scorned Me, So I Broke Off the Engagement, Bought the Abandoned Crown Prince, and Had His Baby 将军嫌弃，我退婚买废太子生崽崽 [One-on-one romance + personal space + spirit spring + mutual pampering + adorable child + later pursuit of the wife] Su Qingdai wants to get married before her mother passes away, but her fiancé, General Shao Zongshen, looks down on her. “A bumpkin like you could never be good enough for me. I already have someone I love. You have two choices: break off the engagement, or behave yourself and become my concubine!” Su Qingdai: “A faithless man like you is no better than a dog. Let’s break off the 1.4kReads8.0Score178Shelves
- 49 I Took Over Princess Shanyin's Body: Outwit the Plot and Stay Alive 魂穿山阴公主，破局保命 Betrayed and ambushed by her business partner, she died in an explosion, her soul extinguished. When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated to the most chaotic period in Chinese history, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and become Liu Chuyu, the Princess Shanyin infamous in history and destined for a tragic death. As a modern woman with no survival skills suited to ancient times, all she wanted was to keep her head down, stay alive, and seize a chance to escape. But on the road to 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The System Forced Me into Palace Schemes, So I Took the Empire Instead 系统逼我宫斗我反手拿下江山 [Empress + against the usual tropes + nation-building] I transmigrated into a palace-intrigue game, and the System wants me to compete for the emperor's favor? I turned around and drew up a plan of my own, using the economy to control the dynasty's lifeline! While the concubines “happened” to run into the emperor in the imperial garden, I was pushing through salt and iron reforms at court. While they fought for his favor and poisoned one another, I had already trained an army of women, ready to 15Reads—Score—Shelves
