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The Fallen Emperor Who CultivatesAfter failing his heavenly tribulation, immortal cultivator Zachary awakens as the deposed emperor of DQ Country. Wielding his powers, he exposes court poisons, executes traitors, and wages war against a modern army led by his transmigrated brother Zion and the venomous dowager Liliana. Through manipulated storms and summoned spirits, he proves his divine right, reclaims the throne, and crushes all rebellion to rule the empire alone.
Prisoner? No! I Want The Crown!Blair is the real princess of Daxon. Lily was switched with her as a child and has lived in her place ever since, and Blair spent the twenty years that followed in a dungeon in an enemy kingdom.
She comes back to the palace with no belief left in anything but power. She starts by taking the general who is engaged to Lily. At the Tiance Tournament she shows the court what she can do, and when black magic traps are laid for her she breaks them. The emperor carries guilt over what was done to her, and she puts it to use, breaking the alliance between the Empress and the Empress Dowager and then bringing the prince's betrayal into the open. Through all of it the general lets himself be used as her pawn and keeps her protected while the palace fills up with plots.
Your Wife Is a Hidden Martial MasterLucinda possesses unparalleled martial arts but remains unaware of her own power. Humiliated when the Chen family breaks off her engagement, she is sent by her family to Jing City to marry Gideon. Along the way, she accidentally saves Gideon and becomes entangled in conflicts among multiple factions. Using her hidden abilities, she resolves crises and ultimately secures a marriage pact with Gideon, facing the challenges of the Dragon Sect head-on.
Return of the Beggar EmpressSelene wants a doctor for her mother and cannot get one. Six years earlier her father was chancellor. Then a false accusation brought the family down, and the sentence was beggary, for life, with no way back to rank. Before that happened, on one night, she and the emperor had saved each other's lives by chance. She now has a son, and she takes him with her on the search.
The people who knew the family in its good years are the ones who get in her way. They bully her in the street. In the middle of that she learns that the man from that night, her son's father, is the emperor himself, and that he has spent the six years since looking for her.
Kiss Me, Your Highness!Screenwriter Toby falls into her own palace drama as a woman disguised as a eunuch. A jade pendant ties her to Prince Ethan Shaw, and her attempt to escape the story by kissing him only pulls her deeper into its conspiracies. Ethan's determination to marry the supposed man grows alongside their feelings, while Toby's sex remains a dangerous secret.
I Became My Sister to Avenge HerThe kingdom holds that twins are an ill omen, and an imperial decree lays down what is to be done about them. In the household of the Minister of War that meant the younger of two girls, Lorraine, was shut in a hut on the hill behind the house and kept in chains. The only person who came to her was her twin, Winifred. Winifred taught herself to open the locks, and as the two of them grew up they swapped places from time to time. Winifred was the one warm thing in Lorraine's life, and Lorraine's nature changed under her.
The Empress Dowager arranged a marriage between Winifred and the heir of Prince Jance. Winifred accepted it because it gave her a way to get her sister out, and she promised to come for Lorraine on her wedding night. On that night Winifred came to the hut covered in blood, undid Lorraine's chains and died. Her body carried a great many marks of abuse.
Lorraine cut herself to copy the wounds and went into Prince Jance's mansion in her sister's place. She keeps her identity hidden there while she looks into what happened to Winifred, and what she begins to turn up is a secret kept by the house that ties back to her sister's death.
Belated Love? I refuse!Zinnia Smith's family were nobles until her mother died and the household lost everything. Quentin, a poor student her mother had once helped, took her in when there was nowhere else. He was sick and there was no money for his treatment or for the imperial examination, so Zinnia went into a pleasure house and earned there for three years, on her singing and playing.
Quentin passed the examination at the top of the list. He then married another woman and told Zinnia she could come into his household as a maid of the bedchamber. Instead she accepted an offer of marriage from a customer who had kept his name back. He was Silas Xenia, the Emperor, and he remembered her from the palace when they were both children, when she had shown him a kindness. Zinnia was raised to Empress. Quentin and his wife worked against her from there.
10 Days to Win His Majesty, or DieErin wants to go home. She is chief appraiser at an auction house, and she has woken up inside a palace novel. The condition for getting back is that within ten days she must take the original heroine's place, win Emperor Adrian, and be made empress.
She takes the job for an easy one. It stops being easy when she works out that Adrian's lovesick manner is an act. He plays the fool while he lays plans to wipe out the men plotting against him. The gentle consort in his palace is a piece placed there by the prince behind the plot, and the affection on show at court sits on top of a fight for control.
The consort's people come after Erin to kill her. While she is running she swallows the Frost Toad, the only thing that can hold down the heat poison in Adrian's body. From that moment the two of them share breath and pain, and if one dies so does the other. Adrian trusts almost no one, but now he has to keep her alive, and the two of them get through each crisis by leaning on each other. The prince stirs up trouble on the border as cover for his rising. Erin sees what he is doing, and she and Adrian set traps for his people together.
Princess Strikes BackEighteen years after conquering the realm and placing her younger brother Xavier on its throne, Grand Princess Ximena learns what his rule has done to her daughter. The emperor has ordered Liliana's scholar fiancé Liam to marry the chancellor's daughter, while his mother expects Liliana to accept life as a concubine. Ximena comes out of rural retirement and marches back to the capital to make the throne answer for the insult.
I Time-Traveled and Took Over Villains' ValleyAdelaide, a legendary doctor feared across both lawless and lawful circles, transmigrates to the past and marries Xavier, disguised as a common farmer and known as the Prince of Pacifier. She becomes the stepmother to three mischievous children and must navigate their rebellious antics while disciplining troublesome servants. To survive, Adelaide also befriends several notorious villains in Villains’ Valley. Xavier never expected that the seemingly delicate, helpless young woman before him would, in reality, be a mischievous mastermind more cunning and ruthless than any villain around.
Her Majesty Broke My HeartTaylor Chow owns a shop that links the ancient realm to the modern world. By a quirk of fate, this fortune enabled him to aid the Princess, Snow Murphy, in ascending the imperial throne. Yet a year later, Snow was seduced by schemers and confronted him with sharp reproach. Devoted to Snow and their son, Taylor yielded time and again. And can Talor fix his heartbreak?
Your Highness, This Is a Cupid MissionSelena needs the crown prince to fall in love with the general's daughter, and she needs it done inside thirty days. She is a fairy with a poor record, and the god in charge of marriages has dumped her into the prince's bath with that single assignment. If the two are not a couple by the deadline, her soul comes apart.
The prince himself gets in the way. Each time she ties the red thread between him and the general's daughter, he undoes it. She flirts with him to set things up, and he flirts back. He is poisoned at one point, and she risks her own life to save him. Later, when she is the one in danger, he covers her with his own body.
Wrong Groom? Right Emperor!On the day the Sterlings cast the silk ball to choose a husband, Evelyn Sterling accidentally throws hers to a beggar, while her scheming sister Josephine wins the noble Adrian Montague. But fate has a cruel sense of humor. The “beggar” is actually Emperor Lucian Prescott. So when power meets disguise… who will truly rule the game?
Reborn to Marry a Beggar PrinceLana Truman woke up reborn on the day of her wedding to Liam Shaw. Haunted by the horrors of her past life, she tossed aside the coronet, called off the marriage, and took in a fool beggar as her live-in husband. The whole world laughed at her. However who knows the beggar was none other than Giles Gordon, the real crown prince?
The Crown and the QuillA gifted young woman enters the empire's finest academy disguised as a man because women are barred from studying. Her closest classmate is the crown prince, himself traveling incognito, and friendship turns complicated when he falls for the person he believes is his male companion. With her ruthless fiancé threatening her family and her disguise nearing exposure, the prince must choose between imperial rules and standing beside her.
My Father, the Hidden Supreme ImmortalBetrayed and slain by her junior sister Emma, Divine Empress Megan was reborn as an eight-year-old child. To her astonishment, she discovered her seemingly ordinary father, Larry, was actually the hidden Divine Emperor. Guiding him to reclaim his power, they worked together to rescue the Saintess Danielle, humiliated Larry's materialistic ex-wife and her lover Liam, and outmaneuvered the Holy Land's Young Master, Chad. Triggered by a mysterious Yin fish pendant, Larry awakened his true form in the imperial palace, destroyed Emma and the traitor Andy, and ultimately reclaimed his celestial throne, ruling over all.
She Said No and Married a KingModern medical prodigy Florence awakens in the body of an impoverished noblewoman who died inside her bridal sedan. She breaks with the fiancé who humiliated her, strikes back at the cousin and relatives stealing her inheritance, and hires a handsome guard to survive the capital's intrigues. Her chosen protector is actually Xander, the empire's most feared prince, and their alliance draws revenge and romance together.
Reborn Lady Rules the HouseIn her past life, Marquise Selena was tormented by the cherished legitimate daughter of the Marquis household and chose to die alongside her. Reborn, Selena no longer blindly favors the daughter and instead protects the dutiful concubine daughter who once risked her life for her. Meanwhile, the love-struck legitimate daughter is determined to marry Prince Jayden, but Selena soon realizes it is the concubine daughter who truly holds his heart. Taking matters into her own hands, Selena orchestrates their royal marriage. The spiteful legitimate daughter conspires with the matriarch to sabotage them, but Selena foils every scheme, and the two eventually reap the consequences of their actions. Selena succeeds in uniting the concubine daughter with Prince Jayden. Years later, her husband, long thought dead in battle, returns, and the reunited couple grows old together in peace.
Adopted, I Became My Family's Lucky StarNia time-traveled with the system, was adopted by Prince Zion into a troubled family, and used the system to thwart the Crown Prince's plan to kill them, ultimately becoming the most favored princess in the imperial city, feared by all.
They Know My Thoughts, I Know the PlotBryanna's mother Jasmine cannot hide anything from her, because Jasmine can hear everything Bryanna thinks. Bryanna had read the book both of them are now living inside, so she knows what is coming, and she uses her thoughts to feed her mother the answers.
Jasmine is not the only one in danger. There are people who want the throne, and they treat Jasmine as an obstacle. Bryanna works with small tricks and what she remembers of the plot to keep her mother ahead of them.
Pregnant with the God's ChildAfter thirty millennia, a mortal woman carries the God Lord’s child, heralding a new deity.
The Heiress Who Cut Off Her FamilySeraphina was told she had an illness with no treatment the day before she was due to leave Serenity Academy and go home, three years after her family sent her there.
Her birth parents and her older brother had collected her from an orphanage at seventeen and brought her to the marshal's residence. The daughter the family had adopted in the meantime, Selena, was the one the household doted on. Selena set her up, and the charge was that Seraphina had been carrying on with the young master of a prominent house. The Shen family sent her to Serenity Academy to be taught women's virtues. On paper the place was a school for girls. Seraphina was held inside it for three years and was beaten and worn down there.
After the diagnosis she stopped expecting anything from her parents and her brother, and decided to break with the Shen family for good.
I'm No Beggar, I'm the Princess!A blind beggar girl, revealed as the emperor’s daughter, rises against treachery and prophecy to become the savior of the nation.
The Wrong Lady ReturnsJoanna Powell, a fallen noble turned healer, enters the palace seeking justice for her family. She never expected to find the man she saved five years ago… or that her son might be his. But her jealous friend has already stolen her place. When His Majesty uncovers the truth… will he choose the woman who deceived him, or the healer who saved his life?
I Had the Heir's ChildSeven years after being separated and losing her memory, Vivienne returns with her daughter to reunite with Theodore, uncovering old plots and hidden family secrets.
Velvet Revenge: Crowned in BloodYasmin Conrad's mother swept cherry blossoms in the courtyard, which was the wrong thing to have done in front of Elsie Hudson. Elsie set her dogs on her and had it done where people could see. Yasmin was a child and watched it and could do nothing, because Elsie was about to enter the palace as Queen.
Elsie did not leave it there. She had the child carried off to the hills behind the house to be eaten by wolves. Someone Yasmin did not know reached her first and made her an offer: she would be taught how to draw powerful men in, she would be brought into the palace, and she would take her mother's account out of Elsie. Yasmin agreed. She goes in with rouge for a weapon, to pull the virtuous face off Elsie Hudson.
No Child, Just the CrownVivienne and Vanessa are sisters, and in their last life Vanessa killed her. Vivienne had taken the Fertility Pill then, and it carried her to the throne as empress, while Vanessa had taken the Beauty Pill. Vivienne's time as empress did not last long before her sister turned on her.
Vivienne wakes up back in the past. Before long she finds that Vanessa has come back as well. Vanessa moves first this time. She takes the Fertility Pill for herself and arranges matters so that Vivienne has no choice but to swallow the Beauty Pill. The two sisters start the struggle for the empress's seat over again, this time with the pills exchanged between them.
Your Majesty… I’m Just a Courtesan!Jessica Jane is on the register of courtesans kept by the imperial house. She spends one night with Emperor Ryan Coleman and leaves the palace.
Three years later she comes back. Her fiancé has just placed first in the imperial examinations. He denounces her in public and gives her up to marry a woman of higher rank, and she is condemned to death. Ryan Coleman intervenes, has the sentence stopped, and brings her into the palace.
A princess at court starts spreading accusations against her, and the crown prince also works against her. Then there is a fire in the palace, and a spell of memory loss that turns out to be an act. Ryan Coleman has the phoenix seal of an empress and a marriage document drawn up in her name. The standing of her family is taken up at court at the same time.
Taming My Rogue PrinceStephanie, the daughter of the prime minister, was born with unusual physical strength. The emperor ordered her to pass herself off as a commoner and marry Vincent, a prince living in exile outside the palace, and to get him back on a straight path and in a position to inherit the throne. After the wedding she used her martial arts on her husband whenever he misbehaved. The two of them fought. Over time the fighting turned into attachment, the pair went from opponents to allies, and they challenged the court together over the succession.
The Commoner Emperor’s Love ReturnsThe emperor believes the village girl he loved is dead. She is alive, has lost her sight, and lives by begging with the daughter he does not know he has.
The two had met years earlier, when the emperor was living among commoners. A princess led the opposition to the match, and they were forced apart. She was already pregnant when she left without a word.
Seven years on, the girl begs in the street to feed her blind mother and asks money of the emperor himself. He does not recognise either of them. The mother is caught up in a plot and sentenced to death on a false charge. The two recognise each other at the execution ground. The emperor takes her into the palace and names her his empress-to-be.
On the eve of the wedding it comes out that she is the missing daughter of a powerful family, and that family's dealings become the next danger to her.
The Princess Dumps Her Cheating FiancéTo test her fiancé, a princess hid her identity for three years, only to expose his betrayal with another at their wedding. With new love and royal power, she punished the traitors and found true love.
One Night Before ExecutionFiona Linetti wants to go on living. Her father and stepmother have sent her into the palace to attend the old emperor, and when he dies three days later she is to be buried with him. At the funeral she seduces the handsome monk reciting the scriptures. The monk is the new emperor, and he spares her. She is pregnant by him when she runs home, where her stepmother forces her into a marriage in her sister's place and she nearly drowns for it. The emperor takes her back to the palace. Her stepsister Lin Baozhou keeps building accusations against her, the empress dowager sets her own obstacles, and Fiona gets out of each one, until she is made empress and rules alongside him.
No Army, No Crown? She Took BothYasmine returns from war having disguised herself as a man, defeated the Southern Nation, and captured its crown prince. The emperor repays her victory by breaking his promise of military command and inheritance, ordering her into marriage with the imperial crown prince so she can be confined to domestic life. Once inside the palace, Yasmine turns a bid to sideline her into a path through the succession struggle, seizes the regency, and ultimately places her own daughter on the throne as the nation's first female emperor.
Reborn to Spurn His CrownJi Yunshu was blessed with a congenitally fertile Holy Body, which made it easy to conceive and sexual intercourse could cure diseases. In her previous life, she was madly in love with the second prince Xiao Ce and helped him become the crown prince, but was killed by his son. After resuming her life, she rejected Xiao Ce and married the eldest prince Xiao Yu. On the wedding day, when Xiao Ce saw his brother becoming the prince and she becoming the concubine, he was so angry that he vomited blood.
Her Throne Built on His LiesThe people who destroyed Princess Quinn's family had help, and Quinn believed the help came from Shattock, the boy she had grown up with and loved. She took the throne after the massacre. As empress she killed him with her own hand.
Afterwards his coffin turned out to be empty, and a letter he had left behind came into her hands. Quinn began looking into the case again. Piece by piece it came out that Shattock had taken the blame on himself to protect her, and had done it so that her seat on the throne would be secure.
Harem Wars: System vs. QueenTransported into an imperial court, Stephanie becomes bound to a system that rewards her for advancing through the Emperor's fiercely competitive harem. She wins his favor with her skills while presenting herself as obedient to the Empress, then quietly undermines the woman behind her back. Each reward draws Stephanie deeper into a contest where manipulation determines both rank and survival.
He Betrayed Me, So I Married His UncleStephanie is a doctor in the twenty-first century and she wakes up in the body of an ugly woman in an ancient court, engaged to a prince. She wants out of that engagement, and the prince and her two-faced younger sister have already been betraying her behind it. She breaks it off on the spot, in public, and puts the two of them to shame in front of everyone watching.
Then she marries the Ninth Prince, Theodore, the most powerful and most feared man in the kingdom. They work as a pair against enemies inside the palace and outside it. Theodore takes the throne and Stephanie is crowned empress.
Love on the Emperor's ChessboardFive years ago, Clara Grant became empress to save Ethan Quinn. Now rebels rise, and he rushes to her side. Love and hate pull them close, push them apart—unaware they're caught in the emperor's game. In this game, love isn't the prize—it's the bait...
Echoes of the Last DanceLira Crowell is a shaman of Southern Chu who can perform the Summoning Dance three times in her life. She met Hadrian Vale during a war. She danced the first time for him and he became North Lord of Summerdyn; she went blind and the White Death poison went into her. She danced the second time and her hair turned white. She said nothing, and her sister Yvaine claimed the credit for saving him. Yvaine then feigned illness, was married to Hadrian as his consort, and set the two of them against each other. Yvaine pressed Lira into the third dance, this one for Yvaine's own benefit. The price of the third dance was not her life. She lost her memory of Hadrian. Hadrian, who had misunderstood what she did, learned afterward what the dances had cost her.
A Throne Built With Her LifePrincess Edith and her brother Lionel have always been close. Their father, the emperor, was a tyrant, and when Lionel crossed him without meaning to, he ordered his son killed. Edith saved him and lost her left arm doing it. At the ceremony naming the crown prince she spilled wine, and their father had her whipped for it.
Lionel led a revolt, deposed their father and took the throne. Edith governed from behind a screen to keep his rule steady. Then she was slandered and accused of corruption, and she withdrew from the palace on her own to a temple, where she prayed and where Lionel came often to see her.
Lionel's consorts were jealous of her. When one of them was to be raised to honored consort, Lionel wanted Edith at the ceremony, and the consort accused her of treason, claiming she was hiding a man in the temple. Edith was tied inside a sack. The consort urged Lionel on, and he ran his blade through it. He found his sister inside, and his hand shook when he went to move the hair from her face, and he could not do it.
The Crown Chose HerA widow who keeps her vows is expected to stay in her dead husband's house and answer to his mother, and Amelia Davis has done that for seven years while her mother-in-law abused her. She goes to her husband's grave and is attacked there. A man travelling incognito rescues her. He is the emperor, Adrien Lemoine. She becomes pregnant. When it is discovered she is put on trial, and her father gives his life protecting her. The truth about the child comes out, and the empress dowager admits she was wrong. Amelia is made empress and her son is named heir.
Royal, Loyal, MineIn this kingdom a general's crime falls on his whole household. General Hayden Young faked his own death on the battlefield to protect another woman, and 3,000 soldiers died because of it. When the truth came out, the general's residence was condemned along with him, and that included his wife, Ella Summers, who had believed herself a widow.
Zane Shaw, the Prince Regent, had loved Ella for years and never said so. He asked her to marry him as a way to get her out, and she agreed for the sake of her family's name and moved into the Regent's residence. Zane keeps the truth about Hayden from her and looks after her. Hayden is alive, still thinks of himself as a general, and comes back wanting revenge. He does not know that inside the Regent's walls Ella and Zane have already made a life together.
Mom, Daddy is the Prince!Liana is the legitimate daughter of the Joyce family. Her father is the chancellor, and she lost her mother when she was small. Her half-sister Yvonne sets a trap for her, and because of it Liana ends up spending a night with Prince Quentin, who is known as the god of war. She has a son from it and names him Xavier.
Five years later Quentin learns the boy exists and goes looking for him, which brings him to Liana. The time the two of them spend together turns slowly into love. Yvonne wants to marry Quentin herself and keeps working to keep the two of them apart.
Trapped in a Novel, Married to a WarlordTricked into marrying a ruthless warlord, Bianca uses future knowledge to survive—unaware he recognizes her by the song she hums!
Her War, His ThroneClara wants her husband to love her, and for three years she has believed he does. On her way to be married into a general's house she was attacked by bandits, and it was he who appeared, drove them off, brought her to the house and married her. She has taken everything since as real.
Then she overhears him talking with someone. The woman he wanted from the start is his younger brother's wife. That woman had set her heart on the brother, so he used every means he had to get her married to him, and married Clara because there was no way round it. The bandits on the road had been his doing as well. His mother has been treating Clara harshly, and the sister-in-law's schemes tear away what warmth was left. Clara cuts the tie for good.
Clara has been living as an orphan among ordinary people, and she is the lost princess of the neighboring kingdom. On her way out she meets Prince Julian Ashford. The two of them know each other for what they are, and in the middle of the power struggles they take each other's side, working to break the rules that hold them and to hold on to each other through the bloodshed around them.
Believe Me, I'm a Time TravelerJosephine, a time traveler who becomes the wife of a seemingly useless general, uses her knowledge to help solve various problems, earning trust and deepening her feelings for Peter , though the general’s mansion refused to believe her time -traveling identity.
Snow Blade And Eternal LoveLancelia died on the battlefield, but death didn't free her—it made her a silent witness to his heartbreak, his betrayal… and the love neither of them can quite let go...
Star-Crossed ImmortalsIn her past life,Cordelia endured hardships to become an immortal and married a celestial official,living merrily —yet her best friend , Seraphina consumed by jealousy, murdered her. They were both reborn by divine mercy.This time, Cordelia choseto marry the humble gate keeper Alexander with a mysterious background and Seraphina became a vengeful wife. With the divine heritage awakening, their fate was changed again...
Her Majesty is a FARMER?!The emperor owes a debt he has been trying to settle for twenty years. Someone saved his life back then and he never found out who. Meanwhile the Prince of Yan rebels, and the emperor, Qin Haotian, is traveling in disguise when assassins come after him. A farm woman, Song Caixiu, gets to him first and pulls him out of it. They spend time together and feelings develop. He promises to put down the rebellion and come back for her as empress.
While he is away, Song Caixiu's mother falls seriously ill. She goes to her son, who married into the county magistrate's household, to ask for money. The magistrate makes trouble for her instead and she nearly dies of it. Qin Haotian arrives in time and takes her back to the palace. There the two of them find out that she is the person he had been looking for all along.
Scarlet ThroneImperial Heir Mason Shaw is betrayed by his fiancée Ivy Young. Surviving as a beggar, he meets Zoe Stone, a courtesan with a mysterious past. As they grow closer, Mason uncovers a conspiracy involving his brother Miles Shaw and foreign allies. With Zoe's help, Mason fights to reclaim his throne and clear her father's name. But as secrets unravel, their love and loyalty are tested. Will they triumph over betrayal and deceit to find a future together?
The Chess Goddess Won't Back DownGo champion Michelle is assassinated during a match against an eighteen-nation alliance and awakens in the body of young chess servant Christine. With her new family scheming for her property and her injured brother unable to withstand their pressure, she enters the national selection herself, fighting her way back toward the world championship and a rematch for her country's honor.
Betrayed by My Wife, Nowhere to BelongSimeon married into the General's mansion in place of his younger brother, but his wife Yasmine took the Purple Rhinoceros Pill for her true love, turning him into a laughingstock. Simeon endured in silence, only to be cruelly poisoned by Yasmine—and his child was killed. In the end, the Empress revealed his true identity, punished Yasmine severely, and Simeon's fate was completely reversed.
Swapped My Spirit Beast, Now She RegretsSerena dies at her coronation after her sister Ruby conspires with Felix, the spirit who should have served her. Reborn at the earlier spirit-selection rite, she finds that both traitors remember their past life and intend to saddle her with Ruby's supposedly weak familiar. Serena accepts Lance, nurtures his hidden potential until he takes human form, and fights her way back toward the throne stolen from her.
Married the Emperor, Seduced the PrinceSamantha's mother is seriously ill and Samantha has no way of getting her treated. She was born in the Chancellor's household to a concubine, which counts for very little inside it. To save her mother she is sent into the palace as a wife of the aging Wanli Emperor.
The emperor is at the end of his life and the inner palace is a cold place. Samantha works out what becomes of the women around a dying emperor once he is gone, and she decides not to sit and wait for it. She keeps her own sharpness out of sight and moves one step at a time, getting close to the Crown Prince and earning his regard with her wits and her nerve. Other women in the harem are after the same thing, and she spends her days working around them.
Immortal SupremeAetherius opens the heavenly path and becomes invincible. Then a disaster hits him, and he seals his own memories away and spends his days drinking. In that state he happens to save Qin Yan, a daughter of the Qin family, and the two of them marry.
They stay married five years. The Qin family wants to climb, so they promise Qin Yan to another man and press her to go through with it. Aetherius gets his memories back while this is going on, and he means to spend the rest of her life protecting her.
Caged PhoenixBennett, a judge and innovator, dedicates his life to feeding the common folk and correcting two centuries of injustice through revolutionary technologies like the steam engine. Despite his contributions, he faces betrayal from his fiancée and persecution by the powerful Shen and Ye families during a time of political turmoil. Ultimately, Bennett uses his scientific methods to restore peace to the empire, exposing the truth and ensuring his enemies face retribution.
From Security Guard to Royal BloodlineThe empress of Great Xia takes an interest in Myles at the point when the rest of the court has decided he is a fraud. He has turned up as the son of the Wandering King. He was a security guard in the present day until a jade pendant handed down through his family carried him back.
The pendant makes objects real. He uses it, and what he knows from his own century, to get out of a trap laid for him on arrival and to get through the trials the court sets him. The empress is impressed enough to take his side. One faction wants him put to death, another proposes a political marriage instead. He takes back land the empire had lost. An enemy fleet is approaching by sea while the court is still arguing about him.
The Modern Noble's LeapIn the empire of Qian, the prime minister's son is known for spending his days on nothing but pleasure. Qin Feng, a researcher in the present day, has been pushed around at work by his superior Cui Niu. The two of them get into a fight and both end up in the past, Qin Feng in the body of the prime minister's son. Cui Niu puts his modern knowledge to work building advanced weapons and uses them to threaten the empress. That puts Qin Feng's family in danger. Qin Feng then finds out he can travel back to the modern world and returns whenever he needs to.
Daddy Dark LordSamantha, the holy maiden of the Shushan sect, was fighting the demon cult when she strayed into its forbidden ground. She came down in the arms of Quentin, who ran it, and the two of them spent the night together.
Quentin had by then brought the three realms under the cult. All of the righteous sects had bowed to him except Shushan, which he spared on a whim. Five years later Samantha comes looking for him, with his daughter.
General in Shadows: HomecomingDaxia called for soldiers with fighting on every border, and Cameron enlisted while his wife was pregnant. He beat the enemy in the field, but there were spies who would have gone after his family if they knew whose family it was, so he took a false name and cut off contact with home entirely. He rose through the ranks that way. His wife had a hard time of it for years before things got better for her, and it was after that that Cameron came back.