Any Short Historical Tragedies? Make Them Absolutely Heartbreaking 有没有推荐短篇的古风虐文，往死里虐
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I Gave the Demon Lord My Whole Heart, but One Tear from His White Moonlight Means More 我对魔尊掏心掏肺，不如白月光一滴眼泪
I stood by Xie Yan through the hardest time of his life. Yet he repeatedly disregarded my feelings for the sake of his first love. I endured it because I loved him. Until he cut the vine core from my little brother to save her life. Only when my little brother’s soul was utterly destroyed in my arms did I realize I had been wrong. But I couldn’t avenge him. Because I was dying.
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After Being Reborn, I Ditched My Love-Brained Self 重生后我丢掉了恋爱脑
While gathering herbs in the mountains, I saved a handsome young man who was on the brink of death. He said the only way to repay me for saving his life was to give himself to me, so he became my husband. But less than half a month after our wedding, he disappeared. Later, my village was destroyed, and I was imprisoned, tortured, and killed. When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the moment just before I was about to leave to gather herbs. I promptly set down my basket, but I never expec
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After Being Reborn, I’m Done Pretending 重生后，我不装了
At seventeen, I married Xie Wei, just as I had always wished. But I had stolen this marriage from the woman he loved most. Then, during the palace coup, I was struck down by a rain of arrows. He rushed toward me without a thought for his own safety, as if he wanted to die with me. At last, I was certain: he loved me.
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If We Meet Again as We Were, We Should Be Strangers 若如初见应不识
I am Zhu Qingzhao, the most honored empress of the Great Yin dynasty, and the most ridiculous laughingstock in all the land. My childhood sweetheart, the emperor, treated me like dirt. He personally banished me to the Cold Palace and allowed his new empress to carve out my heart and lungs. Yet the chief minister, the man I called “Elder Brother,” had hidden his feelings for me for twenty years. As I lay dying, he murmured, “Qingzhao, let me take you away.” The world calls me a wicked woman who m
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The Abandoned Empress of the Cold Palace Is Done 冷宫废后不干了
I rose to the height of power, only to be tricked into the Cold Palace, suffer a miscarriage, and lose my memory? When I woke, I discovered that my rival in love was weeping and begging forgiveness, my mother-in-law was kneeling and pleading for mercy, and the scoundrel emperor was sobbing as he admitted his mistakes. I pretend to have amnesia and act fragile, watching them panic and grovel as I carefully plot my every move, all for the day I settle the score! Now that I’ve claimed the throne, w
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I Courted the Sixth Prince Nine Times, and Died Tragically Every Time 我攻略六皇子九次，九次惨死
To awaken the Seventh Prince, the one I love, I stood atop the highest watchtower in the imperial city. The Sixth Prince told me his shadow guards had secured the area, so I had nothing to worry about. But he didn’t know that moments later, the rebels would set fire to the powder magazine beneath the tower, turning this magnificent palace into a sea of flames...
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Reborn as a Poisonous Consort 重生之毒妃
An Jinxiu, the Taishi’s illegitimate daughter, gave her heart to the wrong man and schemed her way through life. In the end, her lover became emperor, but he abandoned her in the wilderness. Reviled by all as a wicked, poisonous woman, she died in humiliation. Given another chance at life, An Jinxiu casts off her old ways. At first, all she wants is to spend the rest of her life with the man she wronged in her previous life, but she soon discovers that this life is still full of obstacles. After
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After I Gave Up, I Became a Queen 我死心后，成女王了
After I Gave Up on Love, I Became a Queen
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Fragrant Thoughts Beneath the Silk Quilt 念香衾
My new book is out! You can find it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Husband, Spare Me Your Blade 相公，刀下留我
Ye Qingcheng transmigrated, and couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. Later, she realized that someone had been setting her up all along. Qin Shao was reborn, with every detail of his past life still vivid in his mind. If he let a woman set him up again in this life, he might as well give up on life. “My lord, what will it take for you to let me go?” the alluring woman asked with a charming smile. “If you die, I'll be done for.” “Come on, you've loved me so much you want to kill me.
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A Life Stolen 被拐人生
Their daughter was stolen, leaving her parents devastated. They searched for her for eighteen years, traveling thousands of miles, but found no trace of her. This story reveals the strange ordeal of a girl who was abducted as a child, along with the tragic fate of her adoptive parents. Full of twists and turns, it makes for compelling reading. Will the girl ever return home, and what fate awaits her?
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Butterfly Shadows Return to Dust: Sold into Prostitution by My Mother-in-Law, My Ex-Husband Searched for Me for Ten Years 蝶影归尘：被婆母卖入风尘，前夫寻了我整整十年
The Butterfly’s Shadow Returns to Dust: Sold into a Life of Vice by My Mother-in-Law, My Ex-Husband Searched for Me for Ten Years
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Reborn Playboy's Desperate Pursuit of His Wife 花花公子重生追妻火葬场
The Playboy's Rebirth and His Road to Winning Back His Wife
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President Su, Your Wife Has Gone Missing Again 苏总，你媳妇又不见了
Hua Nian had no idea what Su Yu and Zhang Beiwei's relationship had been in the past. If she had, she wouldn't have married him even if it killed her. Zhang Beiwei cried, made a scene, and threatened to take her own life. “Why are you carrying his child? I can't accept this...” He comforted her and coaxed her home. Hua Nian put on an act and went to the hospital. When she opened her eyes, Su Yu was furious, his words clenched between gritted teeth. “You're ruthless. You really are.” In the midst
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Morning and Evening in the Mountain Fields 朝暮山田
Obsessive love + scheming + long-planned pursuit + farming-life childhood sweethearts + doted-on heroine + three male leads for readers to choose from The day he married was also the anniversary of her mother’s death! In just two years, the boy who had grown up with her transformed into the renowned eldest son of the Fan family in Jinjiang City. Within days, the smile and openheartedness vanished from the boy’s face. He became a calculating politician, consumed by ambition for power. Please note
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The Young Master Comes to Me in a Dream 公子入梦来
Pan Ye is a woman well past her twenties, so it’s perfectly normal for her to have those kinds of dreams at night. She even married Pei Shuzhi at a matchmaking convention. But Pan Ye never expected that Pei Shuzhi had come prepared...
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At Last, Snow Falls at Dusk, and Our Hair Turns White Together 恰逢暮雪亦白头
She loved him for ten years, giving up her identity as a princess and abandoning the royal nobility. In the end, she became a beauty reduced to bones, her love too deep to last. All the pain and torment finally crushed the last of her love. The green hills would be covered in evening snow before they grew old together, yet in the end, she failed to live up to her name. She could no longer see the green hills, and they would never grow old together.
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Suddenly, a Dream of Thin Palace Robes 忽如一梦宫衫薄
Pei Yingxue never expected to fall asleep and wake up six years later. During those six years, a woman who had transmigrated took over her body and ran wild. By the time Yingxue returned, everything had changed beyond recognition: She had gone from being the youngest daughter of the Pei family’s senior branch to becoming the empress, but the emperor despised her for her countless misdeeds and vicious heart. Her parents ignored her, her siblings hated her, and even her childhood friend and cousin
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A Love of Torment (Ziyue and Xiamu's Bestselling Collection) 虐恋情深（籽月夏木畅销作品集）
A heartrending romance! A deeply moving story! This classic collection of tearjerking romance novels by Zi Yue has touched hundreds of millions of readers over seven consecutive years. It includes the Summer’s Desire trilogy, the series adapted as A Love So Beautiful, starring Bai Jingting and Sun Yi, Zi Yue’s autobiographical novel The Seventh Star Living in Time, The Adorable Guard, and three other books, for a total of seven.
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Step by Step Into a Trap 步步为陷
She plans her every move; he loves her with all his heart. On their wedding night, she doesn't get the groom she was waiting for. Instead, she's sent to prison, because the deceased was the man who saved her life and whom he intended to repay by marrying her. She ignores him, keeps her distance, and vows to solve the case and prove her innocence. He humiliates her and treats her coldly, yet is captivated by her unparalleled talent for solving crimes. A pair of mandarin ducks weeping blood, eerie
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The Two-Faced Spy Consort 双面谍妃
On their wedding night, the groom's demeanor changed completely, and he humiliated her by calling her a used woman. Bai Qingyou of the Dongchen Kingdom was sent to the Fengqin Kingdom to marry for peace. Her groom was Feng Jue, the Fengqin Kingdom's “God of War.” On their wedding night, Feng Jue's demeanor changed completely. His words were cruel and vicious, and he humiliated her by calling her a used woman. Unable to contain her fury, Bai Qingyou immediately summoned a midwife to examine her,
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A Beauty That Outshines the Nation 风华倾国
Ten years ago, she was the last princess of Mengxia. Ten years later, she is the foremost female grand preceptor of the Liuli Kingdom. In enemy territory, she makes careful moves, stirring up turmoil at court behind the scenes with her own hands, all to avenge a hatred that has cut deep! She had planned for everything, but his arrival was the one thing she never expected! He is the famed God of War, admired by women everywhere, yet he falls for her at first sight. Their encounter seems ordained
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Snowgrass 雪草
Without a beginning, there can be no ending. Heaven's kindness to Su Mo was, in its own way, cruelty to Xuecao.
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A Bridal Procession Ten Miles Long, Yet Time Turns My Hair Gray 十里红妆催华发
She may have a face just like hers, but she was the one he loved, and I was the one who died for him...
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A Thousand Billion Supplies in My Spatial Storage: The Stepmother Takes the Kids to Escape Famine 空间存千亿物资，后娘带崽去逃荒
Department store magnate Liu Pan’er transmigrates and becomes an unloved, wicked stepmother, the childhood nightmare of her villainous stepchildren. With a warehouse by her side, she has everything she needs on the road to escape the famine. Come here, good children. Your stepmother will take care of you! The little villains turn into sweet, well-behaved kids, and Liu Pan’er’s good days begin. But her happy life doesn’t last long: her husband, who left home seven years ago, returns. And to make
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After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Become the Stepmother of Three Villains 穿书后我成了三个反派的后娘
Original novel of the short drama After Transmigrating into a Book, I Became the Stepmother of Three Villains [Storage Space + Farming + Power Fantasy + Devoted Couple + Adorable Villainous Children] Ji Zhihuan went from being an S-rank member of a special forces team to transmigrating into a book as a cannon-fodder female character who dies in Chapter Three. She married Pei Yuan, a former war god who was as good as dead, and became the stepmother of three future villains. She was the first ste
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You Were Born Before I Was 君生我未生
She was Consort Yun, gentle and gracious in the imperial palace; he was a domineering, amorous prince. These two met one winter... “I don't know anything. I only remember that you're my wife!” “My lady, what's happened to me? Why can't I remember anything?” “My lady, I can't remember a thing now. You won't abandon me, will you?” “My lady, don't leave. I'm afraid of thunder!”...
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The Emperor's Lament: Tears for the Realm and the Beauty 帝王殇：江山美人泪
That year, he married her with a grand procession of wedding gifts. That year, her beauty eclipsed the capital, making the world envious. He wanted only her, hoping to grow old together and never part. She asked only to hold his hand and spend a lifetime by his side. Then, in a single day, she was deposed and severed ties with him. He ruled the world, but the one he had known was gone. When they met again, it was in the General's residence. He was the mighty emperor. She was a lowly singer, as h
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The Phoenix God Tomb 凤凰神墓
[Devoted affection + obsessive + yandere + love-triangle drama + utterly cruel] [Naive + obedient + stunningly beautiful + deeply devoted + unwavering to the death] On Qin Yu’s birthday, two wishes were made. The first was for him to be supremely noble and untouched by the world. The second was for her to stay by his side for a long, long time. He also promised that she would be happy all her life, never knowing sorrow. But later, that blessing became a curse she could never escape. And the rest
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A Splendid Mistake 繁华错
If I had another life, I would never put my hand in yours again. Never. · Hengzhou’s richest man, the Yun Sect’s Iron Cavalry, Qiongzhou’s pleasure quarter, the Four Great Houses of the capital: what earth-shattering secrets lie hidden among these people and places, so seemingly unrelated? What turmoil does a peerlessly beautiful woman, moving through the world of courtesans, stir up with her delicate hands? Everything should have been in the palm of her hand, effortless and under control. But t
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The Calamity Consort 祸妃天下
She was a scheming, calculating spirit. He was a ruthless, sinister prince lying low in a corner of the empire. Born for revenge, she laid a vast web of traps and plotted to overthrow the dynasty. He was the most obedient piece on the board, yet he bound her heart with love, advancing step by step until she could never leave his side. Xuan Yuan Mo wrapped his arms around the woman from behind. “I know you’ve always been using me, but I like being useful to you…” Ye Qingwan’s lashes fluttered, bu
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The Prince's Darling Wife Is Obsessed with Solving Cases 皇子府的小娇妻她沉迷破案
[Brilliant coroner vs. handsome prince] She is the daughter of a constable and dreams of becoming a coroner. But one day, she is swept into a shocking case. Her parents disappear, her origins become a mystery, and she embarks on a perilous journey of revenge and investigation. He is a prince of the imperial family, accomplished in both letters and arms, and as noble as the moonlight. Yet rumors that he was born as the reincarnation of a water ghost have left him shunned. He never imagined that h
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A Beauty Adorned with Brocade 锦上娇
The mighty General Dingbei commanded three armies at just twenty and made a name for himself on the battlefield. His enemies were so terrified of him that they kept their distance. Now that he’s married, he often leaves the house with scratch marks on his face and a rueful look. Everyone is stunned, but the general isn’t ashamed. He’s proud of it, declaring, “My wife is adorable no matter what she does. What do you know? You’re nothing...”
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The Swallows Return to the Splendid Hall 锦堂归燕
As the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, she was switched at birth and forced to struggle for survival among the common folk. At long last, she was reunited with her family, only to be caught up in endless domestic power struggles. She wanted to get along with her sisters, honor her elders, and live a peaceful life of her own, but every one of those awful people was determined to thwart her! So she faced reality: if she wanted a good life, she would have to scheme and fight within the h
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The Princess Says Her Childhood Friend Is Just a Snake-Obsessed Lunatic 郡主说她家竹马只是蛇精病而已
[Childhood sweethearts + sweet romance + possessive love] A hopelessly clueless man’s guide to romance The Chai family’s beloved, pampered, kind and beautiful young princess, famed for her looks, has fallen for the gentle, refined young man who lives next door to the neighbor next door. But she has too many rivals. How can she win him over? The princess remembers the person who lives next door to her: a nameless creature whom neither people nor dogs can stand, barely worthy of being called her c
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Madam Jinning 瑾宁夫人
Meng Jinning wasn't exactly the laid-back type, but she understood the principle of not bothering others unless they bothered her first. She also knew that being a stepmother was no easy task. She figured the children's maternal relatives and their own father could take care of them, and the most she could do was turn a blind eye. She never expected that, even though she had no intention of meddling, someone else would insist on dragging her into their business.
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The Phoenix Empress Returns 凰后归来
In her previous life, Xiao Xiwei died at the hands of her husband and younger stepsister. Only just before her death did she learn that her life had been a falsehood, painstakingly fabricated by someone else. Reborn through fire, she proceeds cautiously at every turn, learns to read people’s hearts, and sees through their schemes. Together with the Seventh Prince, who has pursued her from her past life, she builds a splendid life.
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The Phoenix Rules the Ninefold Heavens 凤倾九重
In her previous life, Chi Jingshu was dutiful and kept to herself, yet still suffered endless torment and ultimately earned the title of “the disastrous seductress who brought down a kingdom.” When her country fell and she was strangled to death against the towering red-lacquered walls of the imperial city, she thought, If I get another life, I'll live up to the name “calamity who ruins kingdoms and brings disaster to the people”! Reborn one day at the age when girls wear their first hairpin, Ch
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The Phoenix of Wu 芜凰
"If this girl is born in the north, the Phoenix will dance across the heavens, and her status will be beyond measure. If she is born in the south, the Phoenix will break a wing, bringing ruin upon her clan from below and chaos to the imperial court from above." Grandmaster Tian Yi's words came true. The "Song of Great Song," the most exalted young lady in Jiankang, never did manage to "spread her golden wings and bring peace to the world..." A Che said, "You may not be fit to be empress, but you
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The Divine Doctor Consort Rises to Power in the Harem 神医弃妃在后宫乘风破浪
Yuan Qi roared in fury, “Su Yingxue, you are my consort. You are not to flirt with other men. That is my bottom line.” Su Yingxue wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, put her hands on her hips, and smiled sweetly. Her voice was gentle and alluring. “However many women the emperor has, I should have just as many beloved men. Isn’t that only fair?” Yuan Qi pointed angrily at Su Yingxue and roared, “How dare you...” “I could always try...” Su Yingxue held her head high and spoke defiantly.
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A Jiangnan Girl 江南女
(This is a slow-burn story: the heroine starts out as a fragile, delicate flower, then turns into a crazed killer later on. If you dislike seeing her suffer, don't read.) In her previous life, she died beneath the fireworks she loved most. As she stared at the thug looming over her, she found herself transported back to the fireworks by the river years ago, to her first meeting with the Sixth Prince. She had been shy and bashful, while he was young and accomplished. Reborn, she resolved to chang
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Hell of Resentment 怨狱
During the festive seventh month, at a lavish banquet, Shen, the wealthy host who was supposed to be entertaining his guests, was brutally murdered. His body was cooked into fine roast meat and served to the guests... Chunshao, a courtesan who had been taken in, was inexplicably implicated. To prove her innocence, she joined the Court of Judicial Review in investigating the case, only to bring deadly danger upon herself... The Prince of You, the Crown Prince, the Court of Judicial Review... One
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Don't Look, You'll Cry! 别看，眼泪会掉！
[Historical Romance + Contemporary Romance + Tortured Love + Reborn] “Anyone who dates without intending to get married is just playing around.” The words slipped out before I could stop them. I gazed at her tenderly, and she froze for a moment, her eyes darting away. Snowflakes drifted down and landed on her head. I reached out, but she took several steps back. I gave a bitter smile and lowered my hand. “Xia Yingying, are you serious?!” “Ten years, a whole ten years! Have you forgotten all th
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