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Ballgowns, dueling pistols, and vows made for all the wrong reasons. Historical romance trades skyscrapers for grand estates and royal courts, and puts love where it’s most dangerous: between a duke and the governess, a princess and her guard, families feuding across generations. Every glance is political, every marriage is a chess move, and the heart is the one piece nobody can control.
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Reborn, I Let My Sister Take the Poisoned Crown
In my last life I died in the Alpha King's palace wearing the Healer's silver crown. This time my twin sister begged for it, and I let her go. I did not know the poison would follow me home.
female lead · royal palace · rebirth
24 chapters published
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He Chose the Girl Who Tried to Kill Him
On her wedding day, a maid aims a pistol at Adaline's groom. He sends everyone home and keeps the girl.
female lead · revenge · romance
24 chapters published
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The Werewolf King's Regret: Punishing the Wrong Daughter
The werewolf king laid the first silver lash on Linnet Marwood himself, in front of the whole court, for poisoning his heir. The cup was her sister's work, and the lines he cut into her back are opening on his own.
female lead · redemption arc · royal palace
24 chapters published
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He Took the Heirs' Emblems, Then Became Their King
A slack-off from another world wakes as the doomed Phoenix heir and must win three rival clan heirs' emblems before his scheming cousin steals everything. His new system copies their bloodline magic through the night, and the more he saves them, the harder they fight to be his consort.
misunderstanding · redemption arc · royal palace
32 chapters published
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He Chose My Sister, But Now He Wants Me Back
After five years of waiting for her missing fiancé, Linnet finds him in her sister's arms. She says no at the televised royal wedding, and the Alpha King himself stands up to answer.
female lead · jilted-at-altar · royal palace
32 chapters published
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He Lost His Family in the Snow, He Returned to Save Them
After losing his husband and child to a plot that could ignite a war between two kingdoms, Seo Min-jun dies begging the moon goddess for another chance. Reborn one month before the tragedy, he must save Han Seo-jun while hiding a divine condition that will make him carry their children and risk his husband's love all over again.
marriage of convenience · redemption arc · inheritance war
24 chapters published
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He Was Sent to Tame the Alphas, Then Made Them His
Reborn in a werewolf novel as the omega villain his scheming stepsister is meant to ruin, Lucas gains a power that turns every night's pain onto the alpha. Three rival pack leaders want to claim him, but the harder they try to possess him, the more they kneel.
forbidden love · royal palace · forced proximity
24 chapters published
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He Chose the Wrong Sister
She risked her life to save the Crown Prince, and he married her sister's face instead. Reborn nine days before he arrives, she asks her father for a husband, the sooner the better.
female lead · marriage of convenience · royal palace
24 chapters published
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Reborn as the Villainess's Bodyguard, I Refused to Stop at Bodyguard
Haruka wakes as the guard captain who will hold the axe at the villainess's execution, so she kneels in the cell and swears to guard her instead. Seraphine knows she will die and wants to live every one of the fourteen days.
bodyguard-romance · femme x femme · forbidden love
24 chapters published
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The Betrayed Warrior Luna's Second Chance
Her Alpha husband came home from the front with another woman and told his Luna she could be his mistress. She divorced him in front of the whole pack, and the Lycan prince stepped forward to claim her.
female lead · royal palace · fated mate
24 chapters published
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The Calligrapher and the Widowed General
A stall copyist is hired to copy a dead commander's letters for the Hall of Merit, and the widowed general watches every stroke. Then the copyist notices that the general's hand is the husband's hand.
military-base · femme x femme · female lead
24 chapters published
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Finding Her Magical King
Sorrel has spent eight years planning to ruin the royal house that hanged her witch parents. Then the new king sleeps at her motel, and the mark on her wrist lights up the moment she touches him.
contemporary · female lead · royal palace
24 chapters published
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I Proposed to London's Wickedest Duke, and He Said Yes
When her uncle sells her to a sixty-one-year-old buyer, Mina Aldridge walks onto a terrace and proposes to the most notorious duke in London. He says yes, and the rake she chose for his experience turns out to know nothing but how to listen.
female lead · marriage of convenience · romance
24 chapters published
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He Dethroned His Queen, Now He Wants Her Home
The king stripped Linnet of her crown the day after his mother's funeral and handed it to the woman he'd waited eleven years for. She took her old orange cat and went home to her island.
female lead · royal palace · fated mate
24 chapters published
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They Jilted the Broken Scholar, So I Married Him
The fiancee breaks the engagement in front of the whole lane, because the best scholar in Qinghe fell from his horse and now thinks like a six-year-old. Shen Lanxi, the noodle seller who has fed him for three years, steps out of the crowd and says she will marry him.
amnesia · female lead · marriage of convenience
24 chapters published
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I Survived My Father's Test and Took His Throne
On her eighteenth birthday, Rhiannon Courtenay watches her fiance shoot her father, the Alpha King of Wilton. With his last breath he tells her to take the throne.
dramatic · female lead · royal palace
24 chapters published
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After My Best Friend and I Transmigrated Into a Book, the System Made Us Seduce Each Other's Husbands
Two best friends wake up as the doomed human brides of two dragon princes. To go home with a billion dollars, each has to win the other's husband before the Blood Moon, when the book says both brides die.
misunderstanding · female lead · royal palace
24 chapters published
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The Healer Bride: Awakening the Ruined Dragon King
Jilted in front of forty guests by royal decree, healer Sorrel Ashgrove is handed to the Ruined Dragon King, a man the court says burned three healers to ash, and her hands are the only thing that can wake him.
female lead · royal palace · fated mate
24 chapters published
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Rebirth: Choosing a College Husband
Narcisa was beaten to death alongside her daughters by the community leader's son. Upon rebirth, when he chooses her sister, she points to the poor student in the corner and declares she will marry him.
female lead · rags to riches · rebirth
12 chapters published
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Awakening Love: Reborn to Be His Duchess
Linnet died once as the wife of the man she chose for love. Reborn on the night of her engagement ball, she takes the hand of the cold duke she once refused, and watches the man who ruined her wake up with the same memories.
dramatic · female lead · royal palace
32 chapters published
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He Freed the Kings He Once Chained, They Chose to Bind Him
Ren Ito wakes in the body of a cruel beta prince who keeps three neighboring kings chained in his bedroom, and he tries to make amends by giving them the keys. Instead the kings choose a bond built on trust, while a conspiracy in the palace threatens the peace he is trying to build.
romantic comedy · redemption arc · royal palace
24 chapters published
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Scorned By Him, Cherished By His Brother
Her husband sets her aside at his brother's memorial supper, so a merchant's daughter with a healer's hands finds the dead brother alive and marries him to burn her husband's rise to the ground.
forbidden love · female lead · marriage of convenience
24 chapters published
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After Three Years of Slavery, the Entire Mansion Begged Me for Forgiveness
Three years a bond servant in the Marquis's mansion, Shen Wanning is sold as a bride to the comatose War God Prince, and she cures him in secret, never knowing he hears every word.
dramatic · chongxi marriage · female lead
24 chapters published
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He Sold Me Into Slavery, I Returned as Queen
At eight, Solveig was walked to a slave trader by the boy she grew up with. Fifteen years later she is the Lycan Queen, and his name is first on the king's list.
dramatic · female lead · royal palace
24 chapters published
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Dad Hears My Thoughts
The night a framed nobleman finds an abandoned baby on a gem-cutter's step, he can hear her thoughts, and she tells him the diamond he's going to hang for is sewn into her blanket.
dramatic · single parent · female lead
32 chapters published
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The Sect Leader's New Daughter Has Her Hands on My Hips
Lan Yuxi, 26, the perfect heir of the Qingming Sword Sect, is told to train her father's new stepdaughter, Su Wanning, 23, a sword prodigy with no manners. Wanning corrects Yuxi's stance with her hands on Yuxi's hips, and the adoption that made them sisters runs out in forty days unless it is renewed in blood.
femme x femme · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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She Dreamed Her Empire Would Burn, So She Set Out to Break Four Collars
An elven princess dreams the night her empire burns and the four collared beastkin who bring it down. She has twelve days to earn their hearts before the dream comes true.
female lead · royal palace · fantasy kingdom
24 chapters published
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Fake Daughter Is the Real Legend
When a stranger arrives claiming to be the Marquis's lost daughter, a rigged blood test turns Qiao Ruyun into the fake one and sends her to a frontier camp for three years. Her only ally is the Grand Princess who raised her, and her dowry is the one thing the family wants.
military-base · dramatic · secret parentage
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The Alpha King's Bride
My foster sister rigged the royal lot so I would draw the cold Alpha King, and my fated mate watched her instead of me. The King was the only one in the hall who looked at me.
dramatic · female lead · royal palace
24 chapters published
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Unmarked: My Mate Refused, The Alpha King Didn't
Elsie's husband refused the mate bond in front of everyone and left her burning with the unmarked fever. When the Alpha King walks into the infirmary and says he never refused, she has three nights to decide whose she is.
dramatic · female lead · royal palace
24 chapters published
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I Became the Bride of a Grand Duke Who's Obsessed with His First Love
I woke up on my wedding morning as the Grand Duke's throwaway wife, a woman the novel kills off in one sentence. So I made him sign a priced contract at the altar, and I've got six months to outlive the Empress's tea.
female lead · romantic comedy · royal palace
24 chapters published
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He Kept Me as a Spare, But I Married a Prince
For seven years the Graymoor Pack's heir and his best friend ruined every man who wanted to marry Morwen. Now she has written to the prince whose life she once saved and asked him to take her away.
female lead · marriage of convenience · royal palace
24 chapters published
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The Day I Married the Fire God, Three Brothers Regretted It
The night before her wedding, the Sun Lord's youngest daughter watches her three brothers hand her gown, crown and wedding sea to the adopted sister they think is the bride. She walks to the border and marries the crippled Fire God herself.
dramatic · secret parentage · female lead
24 chapters published
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My Vampire Husband Wants to Bite Me Every Night
A seer on the run from the factor who owns her sees herself married to a silver-haired stranger in a storm, and the stranger is a starving vampire who has sworn never to marry a woman like her.
female lead · dark romance · marriage of convenience
24 chapters published
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If You Leave, I Leave
Aveline and her best friend married the two Aldenmoor princes, and the day the Crown names her husband's old flame the face of its new house, they file for divorce together. Her cold husband signed the release three weeks ago, and the reason is worse than a mistress.
dramatic · female lead · royal palace
24 chapters published
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She Wore My Twin's Hide, So I Carried Her Mate's Heir
The Alpha King's daughter had my twin skinned for saving her life and wore the silver hide as a shawl. I filed my claws, put on a servant's apron and walked into her castle.
female lead · royal palace · fated mate
24 chapters published
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My Sworn Sister's Cousin-by-Marriage Walked Into My Teahouse
Wen Jinyu, 28, owns a teahouse in 1933 Shanghai. When her sworn sister's husband's cousin Lin Qiao, 24, turns up with a letter and a stolen ledger, a police raid pushes the two of them together among the tea barrels.
femme x femme · forbidden love · female lead
24 chapters published
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The Poison Taster Who Outlived the Princess's Dinners
Ruoxi has tasted every dish the princess eats for six years and never found a poisoner. When the princess starts ordering the same dishes just to watch her eat, the danger begins to look like an excuse.
femme x femme · royal palace · forced proximity
24 chapters published
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The Empress Dowager's Pulse Raced for the Palace Physician
After three palace physicians die, Qinglan is summoned to the Empress Dowager's bedside, takes her pulse and says out loud that it is racing, and the most powerful woman in the empire wants a witness and a good deal more.
femme x femme · forbidden love · royal palace
24 chapters published
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The Cold Minister and the Substitute Bride
Han Zhiruo, 25, a maid, is sent veiled to marry Prime Minister Xue Biyan, 30, in a runaway noble's place. On the wedding night the minister lifts the formal hat and her hair falls: the husband is a woman.
femme x femme · female lead · marriage of convenience
24 chapters published
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Bend Her
The king hands his sheltered sister to a half-beast mage to learn the magic he swore she never had. She wants her freedom, and the only way to it is through the man who is forbidden to touch her.
female lead · dark romance · royal palace
24 chapters published
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Historical & Period Romance Novels
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He Broke Our Betrothal at the Midwinter Ball, So I Wed the Grand Duke Before Dawn
A lady who is publicly set aside by the Crown Prince releases him herself and offers the cold Grand Duke of the North a contract marriage on the spot; five years after a sacrifice, she returns with the leverage.
female lead · manhwa romance · royal palace
32 chapters published
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The Duke Should Divorce Me, So Why Is He Stalling My Death?
I woke up as the cannon-fodder wife of a cold duke in a novel I only skimmed. He divorces me in chapter 3 and I hang in chapter 20, and he is the one man in the Empire refusing to let the schedule run.
female lead · marriage of convenience · redemption arc
32 chapters published
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They Gave My Crown to an Adopted Daughter. The Queen Raged
Verena comes home from a secret peace mission to find her heir's crown on the adopted girl, her mother dragged from the hall, and her father calling her dead. She takes the circlet off the girl's head in front of three hundred nobles.
dramatic · secret parentage · female lead
24 chapters published
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Reborn as the Villainess's Doomed Maid, I Keep Getting Caught by Her Knight Brother
Tilda wakes up as the maid who hangs beside the villainess in her favorite novel, and she has one night to stop the first crime. The villainess's cold knight brother catches her with the spanner in her hand, and he does not let go.
forbidden love · female lead · royal palace
24 chapters published
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They Counted Me Like Cargo, So I Took the War
His brother handed Seren to the enemy general in the rain, counted between the salt and the wheat. The general gave him his knife, and Seren cut his brother's lie open in front of both armies.
military-base · male lead · forced proximity
24 chapters published
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This Time, I Accept Your Brother's Claim
My Lycan King husband had me thrown in a freezing cell to lose his pup and die. I woke up fifty years earlier with the five princes' files in my lap, and this time I chose his nineteen-year-old brother.
contemporary · forbidden love · female lead
32 chapters published
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I Woke Up as the Villainess Fated to Die, and Now the Emperor Can't Forget Me
I died reading the chapter where the villainess loses her head. I woke up as her, with a vial of poison tipping over the heroine's cup and the Emperor looking straight at me.
dramatic · female lead · dark romance
24 chapters published
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He Used My Blood Then Chose Me
When the powerless eighth prince Seo Min-jun tries to use woodcutter-raised Han Seo-jun’s priestly blood to find the Eyes of God, Seo-jun agrees to guide him only on the condition that they restore the vanished temple and seal the shinigami gateway together.
redemption arc · fantasy romance · romance
32 chapters published
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The Concubine Who Was Supposed to Die in Chapter Three
She woke up as the Immortal Emperor's cannon-fodder concubine, one paragraph from the executioner. She pointed at a steward's sleeve, and the emperor who ordered her death took her by the wrist.
female lead · royal palace · rebirth
24 chapters published
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Wolfless Omega, Claimed by Prince Lycan King
Eight years after graduation, a TV host opened the Lycan King's closet on air and found his old academy shirt with one name circled in a heart. Mine. I was the wolfless omega baking the cake at my sister's mating to my ex, and by the end of the night I had renounced my pack and the King had walked in to claim me.
contemporary · female lead · royal palace
24 chapters published
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The Lotus Thief
After Minister Krit catches Ton stealing jewels to pay for his sister Fon's treatment, he threatens her unless Ton steals the sacred lotus, but Ton's mission collides with Crown Prince Bua's own desperate quest to save his poisoned father.
forced proximity · fantasy romance · romance
32 chapters published
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The Alpha Postponed Our Wedding, So I Married Another
For six years the Alpha heir postponed our wedding for my fragile sister. The third time, I volunteered for the one job no woman in the kingdom wanted: marrying the enemy Alpha at the border gate. My fiancé got there in time to watch.
female lead · royal palace · contract marriage
32 chapters published
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Marry the Vampire King Save the World
Princess Sabrina must marry her centuries-old vampire enemy Damian to forge the final key sealing the demon lord's portal, but as they trade blood and dark magic across enemy courts, the bond they brew to save the world begins to feel more permanent than either intended.
dark romance · royal palace · forced proximity
2 chapters published
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