An Emperor's Tormented Love: Your Consort Is Already in Her Coffin

Looking for Angsty Stories That Break Your Heart and Keep You Up at Night

The kind that’ll make you cry your eyes out.

Angst, So Much Angst It Hurts, Enough to Make You Want to Cry

Maximum Angst. If It Can't Kill Me, Make It Hurt Even More

Looking for Stories Where the Protagonist Suffers the Whole Way Through. The More Brutal, the Better

A Little Angst Is Good, Lots of Angst Is Fine Too, as Long as It Ends Happily

Something with a more original premise. Short stories are fine, too. Unrequited-love angst is fine as well. A little angst is fun, but too much is heartbreaking!

Abuse Novels, the More Abusive the Better, I Have Finished Seven Abuse Novels, Please Abuse Me

Tragic Novels to Read While Crying, Anyone Have Any?

Short Tragic Stories, 10 to 50 Chapters

The kind of story that leaves you with a complicated jumble of feelings when you finish. Nothing too melodramatic, please.

Please Recommend Stories That Show the Dark Side of Human Nature

The character should ideally be a “round” character, meaning they should have many different sides and not be one-dimensional.

Looking for Tragedies, but Not the Idiotic Kind. Keep the Characters’ Values Straight

I don't want angst for the sake of angst. I like stories with sound values that are relatively realistic. Historical or modern settings are both fine, something like He Is in Yunnan and One and Only. My eyes are already swollen from crying...

Angsty Short Stories That’ll Leave You Sobbing at Midnight

Short, Completed Stories With A Little Angst

The books I've been following are too long. I want something shorter, around 200 or 300 chapters.

Angst Stories, Seeking the Ultimate Bad-End Aesthetic, Painful Enough to Break Your Heart

No Angst-Ridden Novels on Tomato Reading Rated 9.5 or Higher

Tomato novels with absolutely no ultra-short angst stories, no heart-wrenchingly tragic stories, regardless of genre.

Tragic Romance, Extremely Angsty!!! Even More Heartbreaking Than A Life Slashed by the Sword. I’m Hard to Make Cry

Any super-angsty stories? *Devouring Love* didn't make me cry. I want the kind where the leads are deeply in love, but the male lead abandons the female lead for power, then has to grovel to win her back.

Bad-End Stories Under 15 Chapters!

Heartbroken, So Angsty. The Male Lead's Devotion Is Just So Painful to Read

Any Heartbreaking, Well-Written Stories About a Hated Protagonist Everyone Dislikes?

Looking for books like Reborn: The Disowned Real Young Master Just Wants to Die. Please, I've been really into this kind of story lately.

Angst! Major Angst! The Kind That Makes You Lose Five Kilos in One Sitting

Short stories! The kind that are so heartbreaking they’ll make you lose weight.

What Are Some High-Quality Tearjerkers So Heartbreaking You Can't Bear to Read Them Twice?

The kind that hurts so much it aches, and makes you cry your heart out. Come share those heartbreaking stories that have you sobbing late at night but still unable to put them down!

My Secret Collection of Tearjerkers, So Heartbreaking I Can't Bear to Read Them Twice

Anyone who clicks in won't be disappointed. Leave your reading lists here so we can recommend books to each other.

Super Short! An Angsty Story of Around Ten Chapters! Make It Suffocatingly Painful! The Kind That Makes You Cry Your Eyes Out

I want books like The Eighth Year of Snow. I’ve got nothing left to read!

Short Stories That Are Absolutely Heartbreaking

Looking for a heartbreaking tearjerker...

Short Angsty Stories That Hurt Your Heart (I’m Usually Hard to Make Cry)