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The Clever Young Lady's Scheme 娇女谋心
An orphan girl is sold into an official household as a servant. She thinks this is all life has in store for her, but when a long-sealed secret is revealed, everything is overturned in an instant. “Being bullied by everyone? I’ll help you! The young master is breaking off the engagement? Don’t regret it! And you, no matter how carefully you scheme, I’ll make sure you suffer the consequences and learn your lesson! But, Young Master, why are you looking at me like that? This princess is scared. P
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- 2 The Gentleman’s Stratagem 君子之谋 One is a soul from another world, in control of the vast Li Sect; the other, a fallen king, quiet and patient, with ambitions to rule the realm. One searches all across the Nine Provinces, hoping only to return to the past; the other carefully plots to claim the countless mountains and rivers. But then he meets “him,” and love and hate become entangled, conspiracies unfold, and brothers clash, all for what they desire. After ten years of trials and turmoil, when they look back at last, who has g 0Votes11.6kRecs3.6kFans
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The Young Master with the Fan 怀扇公子
Gentle and generous have nothing to do with her, and she has no connection whatsoever to brilliance and talent. She is big-breasted and brainless, saying and doing whatever she pleases. Spoiled by his favor and relying on his protection, she does not even take the current emperor seriously. She has no lofty ambitions. Her only dream is to win him over. What troubles her greatly is that the man she yearns for is nothing but a blockhead. To win him over, she brought every trick she had learned in
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- 4 Plan to Save the Male Lead 拯救男主计划 Urgent news from the martial world: The male lead has lost all his magical powers and immortal energy. What should he do when he runs into a powerful, shameless second male lead? The female lead is waiting online. This is urgent. She refuses to share her husband. The female lead shoots him a withering glare. The male lead says, “I’m obviously very powerful.” The female lead says, “Fine, then fight him one-on-one.” The male lead says, “If I can use my brains, why dirty my hands?” The female lead 0Votes1.6kRecs71Fans
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The Emperor and Empress’s Tragedy 顾盼君颜之帝后殇
“From now on, you go your way and I’ll go mine. We have nothing more to do with each other.” “Mumu, is there really no going back? I had no choice but to marry A Xue. Without you, what’s the point of living...?” “But what about the child? He’s innocent. Nan Muchen, I don’t blame you, but I can’t love you anymore. In the end, we were never meant to be.” She turned away. The vivid green of her clothes stood out beneath the setting sun. At last, she couldn’t hold back her tears, and they blurred he
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The Emperor's Favor, Won by Your Schemes 君谋帝宠
Ten years ago, Gu Ting died a gruesome death in Southern Xinjiang. Over the next ten years, she conquered the world and became an emperor. They say the imperial aura of the four corners of the realm can bring the dead back to life, and she believed it. After more than two hundred years of division, she reunited the realm and gathered the imperial aura from all four corners, hoping to use it to bring Gu Ting back to life. Gu Ting was finally resurrected, but returned to fifteen years earli
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- 7 A Sweet Girl Seeks a Suitor 萌妹以逑 “Are you out of your mind?” “No, I'm selling swords.” On the day of the martial arts tournament, she poisoned her master, leaving the eccentric physician of the martial world bedridden for a whole month. She took her little yellow chick to watch the festivities, only to get hit by an embroidered ball and nearly end up with a beautiful bride in her arms. On her wedding day, she caught a cold but still tried to escape over the wall. She turned a corner and crashed straight into her husband. So... 0Votes237.1kRecs37.5kFans
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The Tough Wife’s Guide 悍妻攻略
Li Hengqing is a celebrated scholar in Tongzhou and the ideal husband in every woman's eyes. Unfortunately, not a single woman is willing to marry him now. His beautiful, delicate fiancée was snatched away and replaced with a wild girl from the mountains. He can only accept it in silence. After all, he can't even stand. But this girl seems very different from the others? In her previous life, Rong Bai died carrying her younger brother on her back as she blew herself up. Her greatest dream was to
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- 9 The Heroic Oriole 莺雄 “My name is Feng Jingting. You must remember it forever.” The faint smile in his eyes and the smugness hidden beneath his narrow brows made her regret it so much that, for countless nights afterward, she wanted to bang her head against a wall. That smile clearly belonged to a weasel looking at a chicken, as if he were about to taste it and then declare, “Not bad.” Guo Wenying thought indignantly that she could do things those pampered young ladies couldn’t. Those so-called noblewomen couldn’t ho 0Votes42.8kRecs39.3kFans
- 10 The Glories of the Later Dynasty 后华 [Early work, proceed with caution!!!] They say an empress can enjoy a lifetime of wealth and glory. But after Su Qingcheng gave up everything, her family was destroyed and her loved ones died. And life offers no second chances. After becoming a deposed empress, she steps onto another battlefield in the imperial harem. 0Votes152.2kRecs27.3kFans
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Longing for Qin 慕秦娇
Qin Jiu died at sixteen, just as her youth was beginning to bloom. Everyone said that after getting drunk, she’d been unable to give up on her wicked intentions and had chased after the handsome young master of the Qiao family, trying to force herself on him. They said she slipped and fell into the canal, where she drowned. But Qin Jiu knew that wasn’t true. She hadn’t been drunk at all that night. Someone had killed her.
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