Novels like Apricot Blossoms Fill the Air, I'll Snap That Scumbag's Neck
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- 1 Sow One Man in Spring, Reap Ten Thousand Heads in Autumn 春种一个人，秋收万颗头 [It isn’t tagged as horror because I don’t think it’s scary, but readers say it is, so consider this a warning.] [First: The heroine is absolutely kind. Second: Don’t believe a word anyone says.] A corpse, rotting away, is hidden in Chi Jinlian’s house. Her fiancé’s corpse lies frozen in the snow, while her father’s decayed body is buried in a cave. They are all her secrets, and hers alone. Her world is one enormous morgue. She likes fighting fire with fire, and water with water. People blam 14.5kReads9.1Score2.8k14d adds
- 2 Jade Hidden in the Inner Chambers, Shining with Pearlescent Light 深闺藏玉映珠光 [The animated drama adaptation is now available under the title "Jade in the Deep Boudoir, Pearls in the Light". Go check it out if you're interested!] [Marriage Before Love + female lead is neither reborn nor transmigrated + supporting female character transmigrates] [Female lead seems sweet and naive but is actually cool and aloof + male lead seems indifferent but is actually cunning] Xiao Yunzhu was born into a marquis's household, where she should have been cherished and pampered, living a l 26.2kReads9.1Score3.3k14d adds
- 3 Zhaozhao Waits for Your Return 昭昭待君归 [Ensemble character growth x historical political intrigue x love of country and family x sibling bonds x childhood friends x steadfast friendship x teacher and student turned enemies x everyone focused on their careers x no rivalry between women] [Reader’s guide] 1. A gentle, slow-brewing story with understated romance: sweet at first, then heartbreaking. 2. A richly drawn ensemble cast, each following their own path and bearing their own burdens. After the Seven Kingdoms War, the State of Zh 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Dead Concubine Becomes the Duke’s Mansion’s Cousin Miss 死去的外室她成了国公府的表小姐 Original title: Passing as a Noblewoman [Historical ensemble cast] [Power struggles] [Not reborn] [Plot-driven] [Romance] [Male lead is sexually inexperienced] [Ensemble cast, multiple protagonists, multiple perspectives] [Pei Yuehuan and Chen Man are both heroines. The protagonist field cannot be changed after the contract is signed, so it lists the main pairing of this story.] The imperial capital holds many secrets, and much resentment. There are merchants falsely accused and thrown into pris 42.4kReads9.4Score4.6k14d adds
- 5 The Ugly Girl's Stunning Transformation: One Song, 'Love You,' Shocks the Entertainment World 丑女大变身，一首爱你震惊娱乐圈 The day Jiang Wan was publicly dumped by her fiance, she weighed two hundred jin and had a head full of songs from another world. At an open audition for ordinary contestants, she stunned the whole crowd with a single performance of "Love You." Black trending topics could be suppressed, but not the hearts of the people. They mocked her for being fat; she laughed at them for being deaf. The diva is back, and the song thieves and homewreckers won't get away! 860Reads—Score12214d adds
- 6 Notes from the Pastoral Dream 牧梦札记 Also known as The Shepherd's Dream Notes: A Comprehensive Guide to TV Dramas Also known as Those Years of Endless Complaints and Unsaid Words Also known as That Ghostly Couple Who Never Run Out of Things to Say, Now Writing Reading Journals The original works featured are tentatively Empresses in the Palace, My Fair Princess, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, The Return of the Condor Heroes, Dream of the Red Chamber, The Three-Body Problem, and others. (Note: Life is 130Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 After Getting Together with a Eunuch, the Real Princess Was Reborn 和阉贼在一起后，真公主重生了 Rong Yao was poisoned at the age of six. The poison damaged her mind, turning her into a fool. Everyone said she had the mind of a six-year-old child. To stay alive, Rong Yao sneaked into the palace and became Princess Shengping's personal maid, washing the princess's feet and massaging her back every day, doing light chores. Grateful that Princess Shengping never looked down on her for being simple-minded, Rong Yao secretly climbed into the bed of the powerful eunuch Qi Shen when the princess 175.9kReads9.2Score30.4k14d adds
- 8 Herding AI Dreams 牧AI梦 This book is also known as The Yuanbao Qingqing Universe On the Human-Ghost Couple in the 21st Century Who Took Their Thoughts from Playing in the Mud to Muskets, Cannons, and Missiles, and Straight to Nuclear Weapons ♡(*´∀`*)人(*´∀`*)♡💞 [PS: This book contains large quantities of undiluted radioactive thought. Consume at your own discretion, and have a cognitive-reconstruction toolkit ready.] [PS: This book is also known as The Two of Us.] [PS: This book is also known as The Everyday Romance of 254Reads—Score614d adds
- 9 After the CEO Broke Off Our Engagement, the Government Recruited Me 霸总退婚后，我被国家征招了 Shen Yue reaches Foundation Establishment, then descends into the mortal world, burdened with enormous debts and betrayed by her fiancé. Fiancé: “My true love is back, and she has a three-year-old child. I have to take responsibility. Sorry.” Warning: Brain-storage area. This novel has no logic, no logic, no logic. Don’t take it seriously, don’t take it seriously, don’t take it seriously. 110.3kReads9.3Score17.7k14d adds
- 10 An Old Lady Works as an Extra on Set to Feed Her Family in Ancient Times 老太片场跑龙套，养活古代一家人 Wang Lianhua went up the mountain to gather wild vegetables, then missed her step When she opened her eyes again, she was in a den of monsters. Metal shells raced everywhere, faster than horse-drawn carriages. People wore clothes that showed their arms and legs. Shameless! The houses were so tall she could crane her neck until it snapped and still not see the tops. Wang Lianhua gripped her basket tightly, with one thought on her mind: How was she supposed to get home? Her family was waiting for 18.8kReads9.0Score3k14d adds
- 11 A Gentle Breeze Disperses the Thick Clouds 暄风散浓云 [Historical romance + devoted couple + sweet at first, then heartbreak + household intrigue + political machinations + infidelity + twists + reconciliation] [An adaptable, sweet-and-salty heroine + a pitiful, unfaithful man] Twist warning: read it a second time and you'll realize it's a different story. She is a pampered princess who cares for the people; he is a battle-hardened general, tough on the outside but earnest at heart. Time may pass them by, but fate will bring them together. She sear 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Kill Them All. There's No Need to Act Normal 都杀了，做人没必要太正常 [Now being published; a motion comic is out. The heroine is invincible, no romance, no nation-building, plot-focused, with male characters who may die.] Guan Zhiwei is forced to transmigrate. Countless Systems bind themselves to her, promising to send her home once she completes their missions. They all turn out to be liars. Our unlucky heroine decides to take down this world. Starting with killing the male lead. As she takes out one romantic male lead after another, she leads her neighbors 57.4kReads9.6Score10k14d adds
- 13 I’m Already Doing Quick Transmigration, and I Still Have to Please Men? 都快穿了，我还讨好男人？ Quick transmigration + plot-driven + subverting expectations + worker's gripes + manic one moment, triumphant the next, then absurd Meng Wan is an ordinary wage slave. After staying up late to make seventeen PowerPoint presentations in a row, she successfully puts herself in a coma in the ICU. The System, Ma Li, tells her she can return to the real world if she completes missions and collects life points across three thousand small worlds. Has capitalism really gone so insane that it won't even 19.9kReads9.3Score2.4k14d adds
- 14 After Being Banished to the Cold Palace, I Cling to the Imperial Preceptor 被打入冷宫后我赖上了国师 [Transmigrate into a book + Subverting tropes + Light political intrigue + Devoted to each other + Not a wish-fulfillment story] Jiang Dai was just a busy modern office worker. She clicked on a political intrigue novel to investigate a case, but before she could finish reading it, she opened her eyes one day and found herself as an abandoned consort in the Cold Palace who wouldn't survive three chapters... No, not even one. Where was the essential System for someone who'd transmigrated into a bo 126.6kReads9.5Score19.5k14d adds
- 15 After Mistaking the Forced-Love Countdown for an Affection Meter 错把强制爱倒计时当好感值后 (Realistic, with a touch of cult) Having endured hardship as a child, Lin Xinsheng worked tirelessly and valued her career more than life itself. At last, she became a star agent at a major talent agency. Still, she often felt that the people at her company had something wrong with their brains. Executives who liked playing out obsessive love stories with their subordinates, trainees carrying Systems, and artists who never thought about their careers and only wanted to play emotional tug-of-war 23.3kReads9.0Score4.6k14d adds
- 16 The Farmer’s Daughter Refuses to Marry, and Her Future Powerful Official Loses Control in Public 农女拒嫁，未来权臣当众失控 [Romance first, career second] Since the heavens have given her a chance to start over, Xie Qinglian wastes no time. She decides not to give Shen Xingzhou any chance to grow up: she'll drown him in the river, push him off a mountain, or poison him with a poisonous fruit! [Shen Xingzhou: a mad beauty] When he discovers that Zhenzhen, the woman he loves, is actually Xie Qinglian and that she wants to kill him, he decides that if they cannot be husband and wife in life, then they can be a pair of g 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Sole Possession of Spring: Stones from Other Mountains 独占春：他山之石 [Also known as: When My Late Husband Returned, My Stepson Went Mad!] "Both leads are virgins + Younger male lead + He’s been plotting this for a long time" Lin Yitao became a widow at seventeen. To continue the family line, her husband’s family adopted a young boy and made him her legitimate son. The boy was exceptionally gifted, and under her guidance he quickly went from an unknown nobody to the celebrated Jade Carver of the capital. No one knew that the Jade Carver was steadily plotting to ma 19.8kReads9.0Score3.1k14d adds
- 18 Thriller Game: Seventy Is the Age to Strive 惊悚游戏：七十正是奋斗的年纪 [Just received a rating, and it’s still going up] [Horror game + tough old lady + dungeon challenges + infinite-flow] Mild horror, mostly solo, with occasional moments of teamwork. On the day Li Shuying turned 70, her most beloved granddaughter was nearly abducted by a kidnapper called the “Horror Game.” What kind of ability is it to go after a child, you damned kidnapper? Li Shuying rubbed her hands together. Today, she was going to teach this kidnapper game just how formidable a tough old lady 35.8kReads9.3Score5.9k14d adds
- 19 Her Bones Are Yet Cold, Her Vengeance Unfulfilled: The Wicked Woman Returns from Hell 骨未寒，仇未报，恶女她从地狱来 [Revenge after being reborn + the whole family gets what they deserve, no forgiveness + satisfying inner-courtyard drama] In her previous life, Gu Han Yin was framed by her fiancé and adopted daughter. On the eve of her wedding, everyone caught her in bed with another man. That same day, the adopted daughter stole her identity, became the most favored young lady in the marquis's residence, rose to prominence, and married into the heir's household. They ruined her reputation, trampled over her 65Reads—Score414d adds
- 20 Forgive Everything Before Bed, Wake Up and Take on the World 睡前原谅一切，醒来干翻世界 [Entertainment Industry + Livestream Variety Show + Show Within a Show + Letting Loose] After completing transmigration-into-a-book missions in a hundred worlds, An You received a gift from the System: a chance to return to her original world and live her life over again! An You: Let the gears of fate start turning! A fake heiress arrives at her country grandfather’s cottage to film a variety show, but fails to recognize him when he returns from his walk. An You: Oh my~ In this forgotten garden, 4.6kReads8.5Score48714d adds
- 21 I Was Supposed to Be a Doormat, So Why Does the Emperor Remember Everything? 说好当受气包，怎么皇帝有记忆？ [Looks delicate and plays the victim, but is a fearsome flower × scheming emperor who retains his memories after reloading] (An antagonistic imperial couple, a reloading power fantasy, father-daughter affection, and a romance that grows sweeter by the day) Chu Mingzhao is the capital's most fearsome beauty. She can shatter a stone lion with one punch. But her unscrupulous father tricked her into entering the palace, where she was bound to a [System for Playing the Victim]. Little Four: Host, yo 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Heng on the Branches 枝上蘅 Content warning: First his soul travels into the ending, then his body follows. The System imposes mandatory quests and punishments, reducing stamina. [Flirtatious Princess × Aloof Imperial Preceptor] [Both virgins · Happy ending · His affection has always been reserved for her alone] Shen Heng transmigrated into the body of a sickly princess and panicked. The System told her that if she wanted to survive, she had to win over the most dangerous man in the book: Xunzhuo, the Imperial Preceptor of 102.4kReads9.5Score17.2k14d adds
- 23 The Ice-Cold Empress Dowager Shines Like a Star 冷面皇太后她星光璀璨 [Ancient-to-Modern Transmigration] [Entertainment Industry] [Fake Heiress] [Golden Finger] [Two Strong Leads] When Xing Yuan, empress dowager of the Great Sheng, opened her eyes again, she had become a C-list actress from the Chu family, despised by everyone in the family and told by the entire internet to get lost. Her birth parents favored their adopted daughter, her older brother was convinced she was crooked, and there was no place for her in the entertainment industry. But now, everything w 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 I Asked You to Conquer Him, and You Turned the Unhinged Guy Into a Caged Canary? 让你攻略，你把疯批养成金丝雀？ After Zuo Qiao died, she was bound to a task System. Once she checked off all her missions, she could be reborn as a rich woman. Zuo Qiao grinned, congratulating herself on having died so well. But the next day, a mission to kiss someone by force appeared on her list of good deeds. Zuo Qiao: “...?” She turned to look at the blind target and began to have second thoughts. Wasn't this taking advantage of someone and bullying an honest person? The only response was ten thousand volts of silen 12.3kReads9.0Score1.8k14d adds
- 25 Rules for a Caged Canary: Don't Expose the Powerful Man's Fake Blindness 金丝雀守则，别拆穿大佬装瞎 [Print edition in the works] [Physiological obsession] [Mild yandere male lead] [Both leads are inexperienced in body and heart] The male lead is not a criminal. A tribute to every unsung hero who bears the burden and keeps going. When Li Yang is expelled from the police academy, she is recruited for an undercover mission. Li Yang: “Do I need to seduce him?” Officer: “No. You’ll just be making tea.” Li Yang: “Who is the target?” Officer: “The most doted-on son of a prominent Southeast Asian 70.2kReads9.3Score7.8k14d adds
- 26 We Shared a Dream, My Cold and Stiff Ex-Husband Turned Out to Be Dark and Twisted 与冷脸古板前夫共梦，他竟是阴湿 [Shared dreams + reborn + college campus + sweet romance + mutual firsts + a gentle, steady love] [Cold-faced man with questionable morals × soft, sweet girl who pretends to be well-behaved] Sui Mi wanted a divorce. Her husband, Xi Jianbai, was wonderful in every way. He’d built himself up from nothing, was steady and reserved, and treated her with respect. He was the perfect husband by any measure. But facing his stern, ascetic-looking face, Sui Mi simply couldn’t bring herself to say it. What 83.4kReads9.3Score14.4k14d adds
- 27 Back in My Wife’s High School Days, I Cut Our Ties with My Own Hands 重回妻子高中，我亲手斩断我们的姻缘 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 No Trespassing 禁止侵入 1v1, both leads are sexually inexperienced. A roguish, shameless [mafia heir] vs. a domineering, proud [crime lord’s daughter] A couple at war, united by pure hatred; a fake-to-the-bitter-end loyal puppy; tailbones that just want to kill each other; and a push-and-pull so intense it feels like their tendons might snap. In public, they act like a loving couple. In private, they point guns at each other. She pressed a gun to his suit pants and pulled the trigger without hesitation. He dragged her 32.8kReads9.3Score3.9k14d adds
- 29 When I Saw the Comments, My First Love Returned to the Country 看见弹幕时白月光回国了 (The animated series is now available. Fans who only want the heroine’s perspective, readers who want exceptionally chaste characters, and highly sensitive readers, please don’t read. Multiple POVs, fast-paced romance.) A scheming, obsessive, dark second male lead VS a gentle, idealized first love Wen Yining had always been the moon in everyone’s eyes: gentle, beautiful, and considerate. In high school, countless students crowded into the hallway after class just to catch a distant glimpse of he 35.1kReads9.2Score29.4k14d adds
- 30 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 48.6kReads9.4Score5.4k14d adds
- 31 Emergency Contact 备用联系人 Song Huaiyu has always been the person Chi Mo fears most. During the ten years she was with Guan Yizhou, he saw nearly every moment of her embarrassment and distress. This is not a story about an ordinary girl who follows the person she loves to a big city and eventually gets her happy ending. Chi Mo and Guan Yizhou have always belonged to two different worlds. She spent ten years looking up and struggling to reach his world, then suddenly gave up one sunny morning. It’s easy to understand what 336.5kReads9.4Score46.8k14d adds
- 32 Danger! The Powerful Official I Wronged Has Become My Brother 危！渣过的权臣竟成了兄长 [Controlled, unhinged Vice Minister of Justice × calculating, flirtatious, sweet-on-the-outside, sinister-within heroine] (Faux siblings + possessive obsession + flirtatious push and pull + secret midnight watching) Six months ago, Xie Wanyu seduced the local prefect, Pei Lin, to save her own life. But once the crisis passed, she decisively abandoned him and headed to the capital to find her father and take revenge. On the way, she met the Pei family's real daughter. Who could have guessed that 31.5kReads9.1Score5.9k14d adds
- 33 I Don’t Want to Hear It 哀家不想听 Young Empress Dowager x Powerful Eunuch A burned-out office worker transmigrates as the Empress Dowager, and Yu Qixiang wants to retire early. Anyone who tries to persuade her to rule from behind the curtain gets a tearful breakdown they'll never forget. But the chief eunuch, who looks adorable despite his cold expression, takes a dislike to her and insists on hauling her to her post to work like a pack mule. Fine. I worked myself to death in my last life. You think I can't work you to death to 23.5kReads9.3Score3.8k14d adds
- 34 High-born Matriarch’s Husband-Taming Manual 高门主母的驯夫手册 Cheng Zhao was granted in marriage to Zhou Yuanshen, the youngest duke in the realm. Zhou Yuanshen had a favored concubine with a powerful family backing her, and he was also entangled in an ambiguous relationship with his widowed sister-in-law. He despised the stiff, dull manner of noble-born ladies. And Cheng Zhao had received the most orthodox upbringing of all. Faced with the endless infighting in the Duke’s household, the concubine’s provocations, and her sister-in-law’s covert meddling, Ch 163.1kReads9.0Score24.6k14d adds
- 35 Me, Cowardly and Vicious 我，怂且恶毒 [Reborn heroine + male lead with a System] [A cowardly, spiteful heroine who meekly does bad things x a male lead who says one thing but means another, a nurturing mom-type] Yun Luo never thought someone like her could be reborn. By all rights, she should have gone to hell. Why had she been reborn and returned to high school? …High school really was a lot like hell. _ Nan Yan never thought he would be bound to a System. The System said this world was actually a novel, and his mission was to refo 29.6kReads9.4Score5.4k14d adds
- 36 Flirting with the Grand Tutor: Strangers in Public, Like Spouses in Private 勾太傅，人前不熟人后如做了夫妻 Main story complete (award-winning entry in the Fifth Online Literature Contest) While the top-ranking scholar husband slept soundly, Song Lian clung to the immaculate and upright Grand Tutor of the court, sobbing, "Please, save me..." What had she done wrong? She just didn't want to die. The family rules were merciless, the Grand Princess would suffer no rivals, and her husband wanted to become the princess's consort. Song Lian had only one way out: hang herself. So she summoned her courage and 146.6kReads9.2Score22.3k14d adds
- 37 The Prince’s Abandoned Consort: The Useless Brats’ Mother Teaches Military Strategy 王府弃妃：废崽他娘教兵法 Female-oriented: discarded consort / cast-off kids / System / a thousand-year-old destiny Su Wanqing, a company’s finance director, transmigrates into a discarded princess consort and binds herself to a past-and-present System. From the start, she has four hopeless children to raise. Her eldest son is an idiot, her youngest son is a good-for-nothing, and her two daughters are the laughingstock of the capital. Instead of teaching them poetry, she teaches them military strategy, political schem 47.7kReads8.5Score4.4k14d adds
- 38 The Foolish Beauty Was Doted on by a Mad Prince After Her Substitute Marriage 笨蛋美人替嫁后被疯批王爷宠上天 [The short drama adaptation of With You, We Journey Beneath the Bright Moon is now open for reservations. Original novel of the Spring Hues series of animated dramas; print edition signed] [Swapped bridal identities + marriage for good fortune + love after marriage] [An adorably clueless beauty who charms people without realizing it VS a double-standard, mad prince] Qiao Yun fell and injured her head as a child. Her father showed her no affection, her stepmother had no love for her, and she beca 52.7kReads9.1Score4.8k14d adds
- 39 Even a World-Weary Country Girl Deserves to Be Loved by a Young Master, Right? 厌世农村妹也要被少爷强制爱吗？ Complete [Country Girl and Young Master | World-weary, wooden girl × arrogant peacock of a man | Some coercive romance | Both pure] Yeman saved a young master from the city who had come to the mountains to film a variety show and experience rural life. Yi Yan thought she was tacky, ugly, and stupid. Yet when no cameras were around, he pinned her against the door behind the house and kissed her hard. A year later, she went to university in the city. At the opening ceremony, Yeman saw Yi Yan sta 172.1kReads9.4Score33.6k14d adds
- 40 She Came From Hell to Prove Their Guilt 她从地狱来，证罪 [Unhinged Assassin Heroine x Coolheaded Criminal Investigation Captain] [Powerful Rivals] [Clashing Ideas of Justice] [Mutual Redemption] [Reborn] [Happy Ending] Procedural justice versus killing to stop killing. Should evil be punished through vigilante justice, or should one submit to the law? One pursues, the other lures. Will anyone win this game? In her previous life, Jiang Li was a top assassin, wild and brazen, fearing nothing and believing in killing to stop killing. Ling Zhi was a crimi 40.4kReads9.3Score7.5k14d adds
- 41 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 8kReads9.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 42 Snow Falls on Youyan 雪落幽燕 Li Mei, courtesy name Shuyuan, is the legitimate daughter of Prince Yongping’s household. At seven, she was granted the title of County Lady Jing’an. Born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she nevertheless had an unreliable mother. Her mother was a fiery-tempered daughter of a military family, fiercely jealous by nature. In a fit of rage, she killed Su Su, Prince Yongping’s favorite concubine, and was stripped of her title, expelled from the household, and sent to live in seclusion on Mount Nan, 1.1kReads—Score10214d adds
- 43 Palm Bait: A Record of Taming the Pampered One 掌心饵，驯娇记 [Gloomy eunuch ✖️ a palace maid who grows over time] Behind the deep palace walls, two broken souls become entangled and find a way to keep living amid the gray shadows of imperial power struggles. "Though the moss flower is tiny as a grain of rice, it still blooms like a peony." We may live humbly, hidden from the light, but we still live. A somewhat realistic story, not a wish-fulfillment novel. If you enjoy its subtle, tense atmosphere, step inside. 207.7kReads9.5Score34.5k14d adds
- 44 A Woman in Power 权姝 Legitimate daughter | Devoted hidden guard × Long-suffering childhood friend, the prince | Pure romance | Court intrigue | Strong female lead | Nation and family The court of the Great Qi dynasty is in turmoil, with the struggle for the throne brewing beneath the surface. The Molong cavalry bears down on Zhenmen Pass, where starving, freezing soldiers hold the border with their flesh and blood. On the battlefields of a troubled age, it is not only men who march to their deaths. Fu Ziyou brav 678Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Second Wife Refuses to Live Idly: She Fights and Scrambles Her Way to Becoming the Family’s Darling 继室拒绝咸鱼躺，又争又抢成团宠 [A dazzling, pampered beauty who’s the spirited second wife vs. a stern, taciturn minister who’s no stickler for convention] [Devoted to each other + ancient-era marriage before love + an old flame reignited + age and personality gap] Jiang Yao, the legitimate daughter of the Jiang family of Jinling, was eighteen when she married the head of the Pei family in the capital as his second wife. She came from a humble family and was marrying into a powerful one, on top of being a second wife. No one 74.1kReads9.1Score10.1k14d adds
- 46 The Black Lotus of Great Ming 大明黑莲花 [Female con artist × hypocrite] The year the Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of the Ming Dynasty, Magellan's fleet completed its circumnavigation of the globe. It was only decades later, along the eastern coast of Zhejiang, where the sea ban was in force, that a country woman happened to hear the Western theory that “the world is round.” Suddenly, she realized: If all four seas are round, then wherever you stand, you can be the center of the world. But when she looked around, women had no pa 5.8kReads9.3Score1k14d adds
- 47 From the Start, I Tore Apart My Treacherous Sister. The Fourth Miss Is Done Pretending 开局手撕渣姐，四小姐她不装了 Lin Suisui is the illegitimate daughter of a duke’s household. In her previous life, she finally clawed her way up to the position of Noble Consort, only to get killed by someone? She didn’t even know how she died. Can you imagine anything more frustrating? Now that she’s living again, of course she’s going to find out exactly what happened. From the start, she tears into her treacherous stepsister... She lays traps at every turn, first saving her family, then the crown prince... After entering 48.2kReads8.1Score1.7k14d adds
- 48 The Book of Stolen Lives 窃命书 The short drama adaptation of this book, A Book of Ashes and Joy, premieres at 12:15 a.m. on February 13. If you're interested, keep an eye out! [Regains control after being possessed | Not a wish-fulfillment story | Plot-driven | Light ensemble cast] Lin Ruochu, the legitimate daughter of a general's family, was possessed during her coming-of-age ceremony at fifteen. The transmigrated woman, sold off by a System, used every means to “win over” the young heir of a marquis's estate. She turned e 37.1kReads9.4Score5.6k14d adds
- 49 Reborn, I Tear Apart My Vicious Brother-in-Law's Family 重生后，手撕恶毒弟媳一家 66Reads—Score414d adds
- 50 The Demon-Spawn Heiress Becomes Principal and Turns the Whole School Upside Down 魔丸千金当校长，创翻全校 (Satisfying read + silly comedy + bringing down the school + darling of all, devilish heroine + family affection) The wealthy Yu family holds a competition among its seven children to choose an heir. Each must turn around a failing business owned by the Yu Group. In her previous life, Yu Xiaxing and her siblings schemed and sabotaged one another for the family fortune, and she ultimately won. But before she could enjoy her victory, the real heiress returned. It turned out she was only an imposto 222.1kReads9.4Score35.4k14d adds
