palace intrigue novels

Browse serialized novels tagged “palace intrigue”. The first half of each series is free to read online.

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Written to Die for the Angel, So I Exposed Her First
  

  I woke up as the sweet heroine's best friend, the girl written to drown in chapter eighteen so the leads can bond. I read the ending: the angel is rotten and the book never says so, and the cold lord who loves her is about to learn it from me.

  female lead · manhwa romance · palace intrigue

  24 chapters published

• 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

• They Took His Inheritance, He Claimed Three Alpha Mates
  

  Transmigrated into a doomed omega's body, Max has one chance to stop his stepmother and stepsister from stealing his fortune: turn the three alphas they sent to ruin him into his devoted mates. When the men learn Max was the one who saved them as children, their pursuit of Linda becomes a fierce fight to protect him instead.

  romantic comedy · inheritance war · palace intrigue

  40 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Erased by My Family at Seventeen, I Heard Every Lie at Eighteen
  

  On her 17th birthday Linnea was refused by her betrothed and struck from her family's book. On her 18th, inside the king's elite Watch, she woke hearing every thought around her, and the first ones she heard were a major's list of women to ruin.

  dramatic · female lead · palace intrigue

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• He Dropped Three Women in One Night, Then We Took His Estate
  

  At his betrothal ball the Marquis ends his marriage, his mistress's lease and his ward's freedom in one speech; the three women he dropped share one stove, learn he never read what ruined them, and take his estate together.

  female lead · manhwa romance · palace intrigue

  32 chapters published

• 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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• He Rejected His Luna. She Was the Lycan Princess.
  

  An hour after she lost their baby, the Alpha rejected his Luna in front of three hundred wolves. She accepted, and called the number her mother made her memorize.

  female lead · fated mate · palace intrigue

  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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• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Girl He Sold Returned as the King's Mate
  

  At nine, the boy she grew up with sold her to a traveling carnival. Thirteen years later Astrid strikes his name off the Crown's hiring list, in front of the whole council, and the King who calls her his mate has to choose whose word he will back.

  female lead · fated mate · palace intrigue

  24 chapters published

  Completed · Every chapter free

• The Tyrant's Sickly Consort Refuses to Die
  

  The cup of welcome killed three consorts before him. Su Ming drinks it, names the poison, and the tyrant who has not slept in nine years tells him to stay. 架空历史 · 暴君攻 x 病弱受 · 双洁 · 1v1 · HE. Content notes: 受视角 mostly, 攻视角 in four chapters; poison, court intrigue, no cheating, no coming-out.

  dramatic · male lead · royal palace

  24 chapters published

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• Married to the Emperor's Fiercest General, Who Is Terrified of Me
  

  The emperor marries the sharpest-tongued top scholar in the empire to its fiercest general as a joke, and the wedding night ends with the general knocking his head on the door frame and fleeing to the stable. The scholar soon finds out why: seven years of his own poems, copied out in the general's clumsy hand. 先婚后爱 · 攻受 · 双洁 · 1v1 · HE · Wenxuan's POV with four chapters from the general.

  romantic comedy · male lead · royal palace

  24 chapters published

• I Was Always the Queen You Failed to See
  

  Evangelina waited a hundred nights for her beloved to return from the widow's chambers. When she conceived, she took her son and went home, where her father is the King.

  single parent · female lead · palace intrigue

  12 chapters published

• I Left… and Everyone Lost Their Minds
  

  For twenty-one years, she tried to win over the four most powerful men of a foreign empire—and the night the heir banishes her from the harem, Ines vanishes without a trace. Then all four start screaming her name.

  female lead · redemption arc · royal palace

  12 chapters published

• Thrown Out of the Hero Summons for a Worthless Haggling Skill, He Struck a Deal With the Dragon
  

  Five strangers from an Osaka bullet train are summoned to slay a dragon, and the one whose only skill is Haggle gets laughed out of the castle. He's also the only one who can read the fine print, and every price he changes costs him a memory of home.

  exile · male lead · rags to riches

  24 chapters published

• My Brother Bet I'd Be Dead by Spring, So I Made My Ruin the Strongest March in the Realm
  

  For refusing to be sold to pay her brother's gambling debt, the king's unwanted daughter is handed a dead border fortress, its debts and three hundred starving people, and the crown prince bets the court she'll be dead by spring. She takes the bet herself.

  secret parentage · exile · female lead

  32 chapters published

• The Immortal Emperor Returns
  

  Beheaded on a forged letter, Chu Xun spent nine thousand years becoming an immortal emperor in another world, then wakes in his cell the day before his execution, with the princess who signed his death warrant at the door.

  male lead · rebirth · palace intrigue

  24 chapters published

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• 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

  Completed · Every chapter free

• To Be A Virtuous Wife
  

  A modern accountant wakes as a prince's contract wife and decides to serve her three years, outwit his poisoning relatives and leave rich, until the husband she plans to leave starts making it hard.

  female lead · royal palace · contract marriage

  24 chapters published

• The Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage
  

  Poisoned by the husband she helped crown, Tang Shuyao wakes at fourteen with ten years of knowledge and one goal: keep her father's army and her brother's legs, and take back her fate.

  female lead · redemption arc · royal palace

  24 chapters published

• Three Wolves, One Irresistible Pull
  

  The Chancellor gave General Brenna Furnival a price: marry the Alpha who burned her border, or lose her army. She named the old Trial of the Hearth instead, and two Alphas went to their knees before she said a word.

  dramatic · female lead · love triangle

  24 chapters published

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• Nine Hot Therians and Their Only One Queen
  

  A ferry keeper is named queen by an ancient Stone that lights nine marks on nine beast-men, and every one of them swore to kill her.

  female lead · forced proximity · rags to riches

  24 chapters published

• Her Journey Beyond the Script
  

  A modern woman wakes as the foolish villainess of a palace romance, knows she is written to die on Gallows Green, and tries to walk away from the cold crown prince who will not let her go.

  dramatic · female lead · royal palace

  24 chapters published

• Swapped Bride: Awakening of the True Princess
  

  A princess remembers a previous life of a bitter marriage and chooses to take her sister's place as bride to the Wildlands king.

  dramatic · secret parentage · female lead

  24 chapters published

• The Dragon Queen's Gambit
  

  The night her dragon queen learned her consort had swapped their newborn with his lover's child, she took the baby from the cradle in the cottage and raised her in secret. Twenty years later, the whole realm will watch her undo it.

  dramatic · secret parentage · single parent

  24 chapters published

• Percival
  

  A human record keeper climbs into the wrong bed on a freezing night, and the three-hundred-year-old wolf adviser sleeping in it learns he can no longer tell her a single lie.

  forbidden love · female lead · age gap

  24 chapters published