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- 1 My Husband Says He Saved My Life. I Say He Saved a Dog, Not Me 丈夫说是我的救命恩人，我说他救的是狗不是我 My Husband Says He Saved My Life. I Say He Saved a Dog, Not Me —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 After the Good Girl's Secret Identity Is Exposed, Everyone Bows to Her 乖乖女马甲掉后，全员跪服 Su Qingyan has always been the sweet, harmless good girl in everyone's eyes: gentle and soft-spoken, never competing for anything, and easy for anyone to dismiss or manipulate. Her family sees her as a pawn to move at will. Others mock her as mediocre and useless, and even her fiancé looks down on her and makes things difficult for her at every turn. No one knows that her sweet, docile nature is all an act. She possesses the heaven-defying ability to make her words come true, and hides multiple 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Abandoned Consort Uses Modern Technology to Dominate the Cold Palace 冷宫通现代弃妃靠降维打击杀疯了 [Two-way transmigration] [Building-infrastructure fanatic] [Strong female ensemble] [A technological leap that overwhelms the past] [Political schemes and strategy] Lin Wei, a modern materials science PhD, transmigrates into the body of an abandoned imperial concubine. From the start, she and four other women of the ancient court face the prospect of freezing or starving to death. Then a mysterious altar deep in the cold palace unexpectedly activates, allowing all five of them to travel back to 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 My Design Became My White Moonlight's Award-Winning Work 我的设计图，成了白月光的获奖作品 My Design Became My First Love's Award-Winning Work —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Corpse Embroidery and Palace Vengeance 尸绣宫仇 Corpse Embroidery and Palace Vengeance —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Fallen Flower of a Legitimate Sister: A Misplaced Love Ends in Madness and Emptiness 残花嫡姐：错付疯魔一场空 The Fallen Flower: My Noble Sister’s Love for a Madman Came to Nothing 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Lucky Empress: The Whole Palace Spoils the Empress Who Does Nothing 吉人天相：摆烂娘娘被全宫宠上天 Fortune Favors the Good: The Laid-Back Consort Is Adored by the Entire Palace —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 After I Cleaned Out the Marquis's Estate, My Ex Was Reduced to Eating Dirt 搬空侯府后，前夫穷得吃土了 After I Cleaned Out the Marquis’s Manor, My Ex-Husband Was So Broke He Had to Eat Dirt —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Schemes at Phoenix Palace: My Empress Consort Is No Easy Target 凤阙谋：朕的嫡妃不好惹 The female lead excels at both medicine and poison, carefully building her power within the imperial harem. The emperor and empress join forces to break through their predicament, while power struggles and romance unfold side by side. The harem's intrigues reach into the imperial court, with twist after twist revealing a shocking conspiracy. Everyone is clever, with no plots that make characters inexplicably stupid. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Why Should I Let Outsiders Take This Fortune? 这泼天富贵，凭什么让给外人？ Why Should I Let Outsiders Have This Fortune? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Reborn as a Concubine's Daughter in a Marquis's Household, I Win Over the Capital by Doing Nothing 胎穿侯府庶女，我靠摆烂躺赢全京 Born into the body of a concubine-born daughter in a marquis's household, Shen Wanyi vows to make slacking off part of her DNA. Overworking is bad for your health; taking it easy keeps you safe! She avoids household power struggles and the limelight, and teams up with the Heir of Prince Jing to slack off together. A sweet, pampering romance with no angst, and a perfect life won by doing nothing. 561Reads7.4Score107Shelves
- 12 After Our Divorce, My Scumbag Ex Begged Me to Take Him Back 和离后，渣夫跪求我回头 After Our Divorce, My Scumbag Ex-Husband Begged Me to Come Back —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 You Faked a Bromance to Flirt With Her, So I Divorced You and Put You in Your Place 你用兄弟装暧昧，我用和离打你脸 You Pretend Your Brotherly Bond Is Something More, So I’ll Use Divorce to Put You in Your Place —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 He Wanted Me to Be His White Moonlight's Blood Bank. I Made Sure She'd Never Get Another Drop of My Blood 他要我做白月光的血库，我要他的白月光不会再要我的血 He Wanted Me to Be His White Moonlight’s Blood Bank, So I Made Sure She’d Never Need My Blood Again —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 I'm Never Looking Back! My Ex and His White Moonlight Have Both Gone Mad 绝对不回头！前夫和白月光都疯了 I’m Never Going Back! My Ex-Husband and His White Moonlight Have Both Gone Mad —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Night I Miscarried, He Was Picking Out a Necklace With His White Moonlight 流产那晚，他在陪白月光挑项链 The night I miscarried, he was helping his true love pick out a necklace. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 He Wanted to Marry My Half Sister to Humiliate Me, So I Became the Prince's One and Only 他要娶庶妹打我脸，我转身成了王爷心尖宠 He plans to marry my half-sister to humiliate me, but I turn around and become the prince's most treasured one. 264Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Night Before My Divorce, I Learned I Was the White Moonlight's Medicinal Catalyst 离婚前夜，我发现自己是白月光的药引 The Night Before My Divorce, I Discovered I Was the White Moonlight’s Medicinal Ingredient —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Crown Prince Went to the Wrong Room on Our Wedding Night, So I Turned Around and Took His Phoenix Seal 大婚当夜太子走错房，我转身夺了他的凤印 On Our Wedding Night, the Crown Prince Entered the Wrong Room, So I Took His Phoenix Seal 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Reborn as a Concubine's Daughter, I Became the Blind Princess's Beloved 重生庶女成盲眼郡主掌心娇 In her previous life, Xue Lanshan was framed by her birth mother and murdered by her birth brother while trying to protect her adoptive mother. Reborn, Xue Lanshan showed no mercy and slaughtered her way through the entire Marquis’s household. She married the blind princess consort only to gain support. All she wanted was revenge, then to leave with her adoptive mother and live carefree. But the blind princess consort refused to let her go. “Your Highness, if you use me and then cast me aside, I —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Transmigrated as the Crown Prince’s Imperial Concubine, I’m Expecting Twins 穿成太子良娣，我喜提双胞胎 [Sweet romance, no misunderstandings] Wen Ruantang transmigrates into a wish-fulfillment novel she once read, but she isn't the heroine! She's a cannon-fodder character who kills herself right from the start, a secondary consort of the Crown Prince of the Great Xia Kingdom. That's right, she's cannon fodder, not even a supporting female character! After narrowly escaping death, Wen Ruantang decides to keep her head down and survive. After all, being a secondary consort to the Crown Prince is pra 30.1kReads8.7Score3.4kShelves
- 22 After Everyone Got Their Happy Ending, the Teacher Dropped the Act 全员HE后，夫子他不装了 [Transmigrate into a book + System + powerful official + devoted to each other + female solidarity] When Chu Changning woke up, she discovered she had become the short-lived Fourth Princess in a novel. Bound to a life-changing System, she has one mission: save the original female lead and prevent the tragedy of the crown prince forcing himself on her and destroying her family! If she succeeds, she can return to reality and claim the five-million-yuan lottery prize! Desperate to go home rich, 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 When He Heard I Was Remarrying, My Imperial Ex Went Berserk 听说我要再嫁，皇帝前夫杀疯了 Jiang Li, the unruly eighteenth daughter of the Duke's mansion, was forced to marry the disgraced crown prince and imprisoned alongside him. They said the former crown prince was violent by nature, so Jiang Li packed her things and ran away. Not long afterward, the former crown prince ascended the throne, and everyone felt a chill on Jiang Li's behalf. Wouldn't the emperor have her torn limb from limb now? No one knew that the dignified ruler of the realm was holding Jiang Li's hand, his eyes re 1.2kReads9.2Score160Shelves
- 24 You Used Your War Merits to Marry Your Cousin, So Why Are You Crying Now That I’ve Left? 你用军功娶表妹，我远走高飞你哭什么 You married your cousin for your military achievements. Why are you crying now that I’ve left for good? 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Calming the Storm Amidst the Flowers 定风波花间 [Sweet older man romance + historical political intrigue = a couple who always speak their minds and choose each other!] This couple wears their hearts on their sleeves and dotes on each other every chance they get! The powerful Regent spoils his wife, while the sweet young lady is warm and tender. No matter how chaotic the court becomes, they have each other. Ru Meng, the cherished daughter of the Duke of Anguo's household, grew up safe and loved under the devoted care of her three older brothe 121Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Forensic Concubine: The Deposed Empress Rises from the Ashes, and the Tyrant Begs to Reconcile 法医庶女：废后涅槃，暴君跪求复合 The Forensic Concubine: The Deposed Empress Rises from the Ashes, and the Tyrant Begs for Reconciliation —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Chang'an Palace Coup: The Prince She Saved Went Mad 长安宫变，她救的王爷疯了 As a female official, she plots her every move at the court of the Great Yin. Empress Dowager Fu lays a deadly trap, the princes watch like hawks, and Emperor Rui seems gentle but is actually suspicious of everyone. With undercurrents surging through the palace and court, Xiao Xuan is trapped in a dead end, yet plays the pig to eat the tiger and turns the tables against the odds. Chao Shutong enters the dangerous game alone, determined to protect the one she loves. 618Reads6.5Score628Shelves
- 28 He Divorced Me for His First Love 为了白月光，他和我离婚了 He Divorced Me for the Woman He Could Never Forget 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 After Taking Her Sister's Place in the Palace to Win Favor, She Turns Out to Be the Emperor's Beloved 替姐入宫争宠后，竟是帝王白月光 (A short drama adaptation with the same title is now available) [A timid, cowardly little beauty who only wants to keep her head down VS a ruthless, solitary emperor who indulges the heroine without limit] [Palace intrigue, love at first sight, a gradual romance, doted on from the start, the hero is completely devoted to her] Song Wu was the illegitimate daughter of the Minister of Revenue in the Great Yan Dynasty. From birth, she was branded as an ill omen and sent away from the capital. When s 21.3kReads8.5Score2.5kShelves
- 30 Caught While Escaping the Palace! The Emperor Pulls Her Close and Whispers Comfortingly 逃宫被抓！陛下搂住小声哄 (Complete) [Down-and-Out Scheming Prince & Beautiful, Sweet Tea Artist] Lin Mo's heart condition flares up after the fake heiress and her biased parents drive her to the brink. When she opens her eyes again, she's become the male lead's scheming concubine. In her original life, she betrayed the down-and-out prince and was eventually drowned in a pond and fed to the fish. She's afraid of water, and even more afraid of dying. From then on, she clings to the prince, determined to be utterly loyal a 32.4kReads8.7Score5.4kShelves
- 31 After Feeding Her a Contraceptive, the Mad Prince Turns Gray Overnight 喂她避子药后，疯批王爷一夜白头 The physical edition of Zhaohua’s Farewell is available on Taobao and Pinduoduo. [Male and Female Leads Both Reborn] [Face-Slapping] [Rekindled Romance] [One-on-One] [Traditional Household Intrigue] [Devoted Husband] [Reborn] [Satisfying Read] A comic adaptation and short drama of the same name are now available. Shen Ning, the legitimate daughter of the General’s Residence, learned only on the brink of death that the elder sister she had trusted all her life was an impostor. Her elder sister se 56.6kReads8.6Score7.9kShelves
- 32 An Antlike Monkey as a Scapegoat? Become Empress and Make Them Eat Their Words 蝼蚁吗喽替死鬼？做了皇后掌你嘴 After transmigrating, Shi Le'an quickly gained a clear understanding of her situation: she was a scapegoat, a fall guy, and a powerless nobody with a fancy title. Her husband was in prison, and her birth family wouldn't lift a finger to help. In short, anyone could take a shot at her. Shi Le'an: ... Absolutely outrageous. Just because I haven't shown my claws, you think I'm a pushover? Even a nobody has dignity. From now on, anyone who bullies me will have their ashes scattered! First, she had t 8kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
- 33 The Six Daughters of the General’s House 将门六姝 Great Zhou has its own Dugu Xin: Shen Jinghai [Ensemble Cast + Court Intrigue + Multiple Couples] Six daughters in one family, all married on the same day, each to the man of her dreams. Deep winter descends, and an imperial decree shatters the last of the peace in the General’s manor. Shen Jinghai, the General Who Guards the Nation, dies by suicide under a false accusation. His wife dies of exhaustion and grief, leaving behind only six helpless daughters. The emperor, remorseful on his deathbe 134.6kReads8.9Score18.6kShelves
- 34 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 137.5kReads9.2Score19.3kShelves
- 35 The Road to Good Fortune: A Beauty's Rise to the Top Through Childbearing 好孕之路：美人靠生子走上巅峰 [Transmigration + Palace Intrigue + System + Multiple Births + Devoted Husband + Adorable Babies] Please note: This is not quick transmigration, and the male and female leads are not each other's one and only. The male lead devotes himself exclusively to the heroine in the middle and later parts of the story. The heroine stays clearheaded from beginning to end: she is neither lovestruck nor saintly. The System is not an overpowered golden finger, and the heroine relies more on her own abilities. 23.7kReads9.1Score3.6kShelves
- 36 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 166.6kReads9.0Score25.4kShelves
- 37 The Entire Court Longs for the Empress to Attend Court and Rule 满朝文武盼着皇后娘娘上朝理政 (The live-action series is out!) After her elder sister dies in palace infighting, Shen Shixi enters the palace by imperial decree to be selected as a consort. Within the palace are the powerful and virtuous Empress, born to the imperial in-laws; Consort De, born to an aristocratic family and exceptionally prolific; Consort Rong, the Emperor's favorite, with a strong artistic streak; Consort Qiong, whose superb cooking has won the Emperor's heart; and Consort Xiurong, known as a learned woman an 49.7kReads9.1Score5.4kShelves
- 38 The Treacherous Minister Can't Resist Her Allure 奸臣不经撩 Later, when Shen Gongchen pressed her too hard, Liu Suisui covered her face and wept. She was terribly aggrieved. “My father died, my mother remarried, and I have no one to rely on. I came all the way to the capital just to marry a rich husband. What’s wrong with that?” Shen Gongchen pressed her at every turn. “He has to be rich? Why not rich and powerful?” Liu Suisui raised her eyes ever so slightly and gave him a shy, coquettish glance. After a long pause, she asked softly, “Uncle… do you like 12kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
- 39 A New Chapter for My Fair Princess 戏续还珠 [Historical fantasy + martial arts + My Fair Princess fan fiction + quirky heroine + strategy and scheming + transmigration] A qipao reveals the mystery of Little Swallow’s origins, and the Fifth Prince insists on becoming a monk. At a grand residence in Qianlong’s palace, they discover that Consort Fragrant nearly died in a mass grave years ago. Qianlong travels to Qiantang to find his beloved daughter, while a descendant of the Yizhu Tower seeks revenge. A red flower emblem is left at the sce 320Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 After a Frail Beauty Marries to Bring Good Fortune, She Becomes the Regent's Princess Consort 娇软美人冲喜后，成了摄政王妃 [Historical Romance + No Rebirth or Transmigration + Marriage Before Love + Sweet, Devoted Romance + Putting Scoundrels in Their Place + Having a Baby + Growing Heroine] Jiang Yuanyi is peerlessly beautiful, soft and charming, but unfortunately, she is a lowborn concubine-born daughter. Her father dislikes her, her stepmother despises her, and her legitimate older siblings bully her. Despite her betrothal, they force her to bring good fortune to the dying heir of the Duke of Jingguo by marrying 11.5kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
- 41 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 38.4kReads9.4Score5.8kShelves
- 42 Hairpins and Beauty 鬓花颜 [Main story complete] [Maid + sisters in the inner palace + ensemble-focused story] [The heroine is a native of this world, with no transmigration, rebirth, or hidden identity] After her mother dies of illness, Meng Shu’s father takes a new wife almost at once. She endures years under her stepmother’s hand, but in the end, she cannot escape being sold. A trafficker’s rope drags her away from her homeland and casts her into the fabulously wealthy Tang household. Her exceptiona 35.4kReads9.2Score4.5kShelves
- 43 A Concubine’s Daily Struggle to Stay Alive in the Prince’s Manor 王府侍妾的苟命日常 [Intense Household Intrigue + A Touch of Ensemble Cast + Plot-Driven + Everyone Has Eight Hundred Schemes] After transmigrating into the body of a concubine in the Prince of Jing's residence, Xie Run only wants to live in peace and, ideally, reach a hundred years old. At first, everything in the prince's residence is orderly. The prince shares his favor equally, the princess consort's position is secure, and the secondary consorts and concubines know their place. Who could have guessed that ever 23.3kReads9.1Score2.3kShelves
- 44 After She Died, the Coldhearted Powerful Official's Hair Turned White Overnight 她死后，冷冰冰的权臣一夜白头 [Not an angst novel + heartwarming + no logic + read it to see if it suits your taste] After transmigrating into a book, Hua Zhao had her memories erased and became a tool whose job was to give the heroine a golden finger. To top it off, she was also the infamous, short-lived first wife of the villainous minister. Luckily, she regained her memories and cut her losses in time. The heroine’s golden finger? Sorry, that’s a family heirloom that came with me when I transmigrated into the book! Her in 134kReads9.4Score10.9kShelves
- 45 The Commandery Princess Returns to the Capital, So Why Is the Entire Marquis’s Household Dead? 郡主一回京，侯府怎么死光了？ [Satisfying family-intrigue story + ruthless heroine + face-slapping the villains] Qu Ling was framed by her stepmother and left the Marquis's residence for six years. When she returned to the capital, happiness wasn't waiting for her. Instead, she was driven step by step to the brink of madness. In the end, she went mad and killed everyone in the marquis's household, paying for it with her own life. After coming back to life, Qu Ling took up her knife. She no longer needed to go mad to slaughte 33.1kReads9.2Score4.4kShelves
- 46 Yet You Betrayed the Spring's Grace 却负春恩 [Print edition now available. Search for Ascending to the Clouds on any platform to buy] [Original titles: Ascending to the Clouds / Loathing the Vermilion Walls] [High-IQ Palace Intrigue + Pure-Hatred Heroine + No Disposable Characters] [No transmigration, no rebirth, no golden finger] [The blurb doesn’t do it justice. Please go read the story] How do you become an emperor’s favorite concubine? A prestigious family? A good education? A gentle, respectful, modest, and accommodating nature? Unfor 25.3kReads9.2Score3.1kShelves
- 47 The Cousin Is Going on a Matchmaking Date, and the Heir Is Panicking 表姑娘要去相看，世子他慌了 [Sweet Romance] [Both Leads Are Each Other’s First] [Happy Ending] [Both Leads Are Natives of the Era] [Gentle, Refined Heir Apparent × Cool, Elegant Cousin] Orphaned and without anyone to rely on, with wolves circling all around her, young Shi Jianli had no choice but to travel to the capital and seek refuge with her aunt. She became the second branch’s cousin, staying as a guest at the Duke of Anguo’s residence. When she came of age, her aunt found her a match. But the second branch’s concubin 34.9kReads9.3Score4.6kShelves
- 48 I Dumped My Poor, Good-for-Nothing Boyfriend for a Powerful Brocade Guard 踹掉穷渣男，我选权势滔天锦衣卫 [Hilarious] + [Lighthearted] + [Good values]: How do you turn an aloof, celibate man into a clingy puppy? Rong Shu raises her hand: I know this one! She transmigrated into an orphan whose parents had died, struggling to survive while caring for her younger brother. To protect herself, she spread the word everywhere that she was involved with Wei Yan, the Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. Before long, the men who had been targeting her ran off with their tails between their legs. Rong S 25.7kReads9.2Score3.6kShelves
- 49 Cherished and Adored: The Emperor's Sweet, Adorable Little Wife 千娇百宠：皇上的娇软小萌妻 1v1, sweet romance, growing-up romance (Comic adaptation signed) Everyone knows that Little Commandery Princess Shen Ruyue is the beloved treasure of the Yuan palace, pampered beyond measure. Her father is the Prince Regent, feared throughout the land. But most importantly, Emperor Yuan, Pei Jingxuan, has kept the soft-spoken little girl in his heart for years. Since childhood, the little princess has climbed onto the dragon throne and slept in the dragon bed. Every time she calls him "Imperial 5.8kReads9.2Score677Shelves
- 50 Good Grief! I Woke Up as the Traitorous Official's Wife, Destined to Die Young 夭寿啦！一睁眼穿成奸臣早死原配 Shen Heng transmigrates into an alternate history as the secret first wife of Xie Jian, the most notorious corrupt chancellor of all time, and finds herself on the way to elope with someone. She doesn't even know where to begin complaining. This is what the Record of True Chancellors says about Xie Jian: Xie Jian, courtesy name Zixuan, was the last chancellor of the Great Cong Dynasty. Through his own efforts, he brought down the dynasty, which had stood for over six hundred years. His life: He 17.2kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves
