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1. 51 小 Married Life of a Little Lamb and a Big Bad Wolf 小绵羊与大灰狼的婚后生活 Chen Mengla陈梦拉Modern Romance58k WordsCompleted A sheepish woman with only a middle school education, and a big bad wolf with a high school education. They have a three-year-old son and two elderly parents at home. A story of everyday life, told in a simple, warm style, about married life. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 52 追 Chasing Her Through Hell: A Portrait of a Married Woman's Growth 追妻火葬场:已婚女性的成长图鉴 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted The Wife-Chasing Road to Ruin: A Portrait of a Married Woman’s Growth 22Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 53 关 A Collection of Stories About A Nuo 关于阿诺的故事合集 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted A Collection of Stories About A Nuo 21Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 54 高 Powerful Family: A Letter to My First-Love Senior 高干:写给初恋学长的信 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted Powerful Family: A Letter to My First Love, Senior 35Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 55 从 From School Uniforms to Wedding Gowns: Mr. Gu, Stop Fighting 从校服到婚纱:顾总，别打了。 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted From School Uniforms to Wedding Dress: President Gu, Stop Hitting Me. 34Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 56 出 Rental-Apartment Romance: Sweet! Devoted! After Making It Big, I Spoil My Wife 出租屋文学:甜宠!双洁!创业成功之后我特别疼老婆 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted Rental Apartment Romance: Sweet and Fluffy! Both Pure! After Building a Successful Business, I Spoil My Wife Rotten 32Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 57 破 Mending a Broken Relationship: After Cheating and Lying to His Wife, Young Mr. Jiang Wept and Begged on His Knees 破镜重圆:出轨欺骗老婆后，小江总哭着下跪 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted Rekindled Love: After Cheating on and Deceiving His Wife, Young President Jiang Wept and Fell to His Knees 32Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 58 追 Chasing Her Through Hell: The Campus Heartthrob Pursues His Wife Through Tears 追妻火葬场，校草边哭唧唧边追老婆 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted The Ex-Wife Chase from Hell: The Campus Heartthrob Chases His Wife While Sobbing 20Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 59 同 Page 38 of the Class Yearbook 同学录第38页 Hei Yan Who Likes Black Wind Snakes喜欢乌风蛇的黑焱16k WordsCompleted Page 38 of the Class Yearbook 9Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Short campus angst story, bad ending

10. 60 他 His Sea, Her Shore 他的海，她的岸 Bao Nini鲍尼尼Modern Romance573k WordsCompleted [Mutual pining that becomes real love × each other’s first love × healing and redemption × devoted to each other × tragic ending] They first met at school. He was a taciturn top student, and she was a quiet, gentle underachiever. Their secret crushes from middle school finally blossomed into love at university. Their romance was as sweet as midsummer, but his family’s opposition forced them apart. He went overseas and vanished without a trace; she carried on alone, hiding her regrets. Four years 18Reads—Score—Shelves

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    See? It was so heartbreaking [almost crying]. The plot wasn't dragging and the character development was great.

11. 61 当 When the Starlight Turns to Ash 当星光落烬 Morning Clouds and Auspicious Feathers朝云瑞羽10k WordsCompleted When the Starlight Turns to Ash 47Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Youth, school, sadomasochistic romance, tragic ending

12. 62 竹 After My Childhood Friend Got Glue in My Hair, He Regretted It Like Crazy 竹马摸我头发上胶水后，他悔疯了 Quan Xin荃昕Modern Romance10k WordsCompleted After my childhood friend got glue in my hair, he regretted it like crazy 27Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Campus angst novel [Sparrow's Masterpiece]

13. 63 我 I Am His Vermilion Mole for All Eternity 我是他永生永世的朱砂痣 Ni Ah Ni Ge Ni氼啊氼个氼Modern Romance186k WordsOngoing [Age gap | Devastating BE | Fate across two lifetimes | Realistic angsty romance | Ye-Tai relationship | Male Ye, female Tai | Love grows over time | School life | Former girlfriends] Falling in love with someone you can't spend your life with is perfectly ordinary in this world. If you've fallen for someone like that too, leave the ending to fate. What belongs to you won't escape you, and reaching for what isn't yours is needless. I, Wu Xile, am eighteen and grew up in a broken single-parent f 16Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Come on, come on, come on!

14. 64 暗 A Bitter Summer of Loving Mu Ru San Fen in Secret 暗恋木入三分苦夏 Tangerine Sand桔沙8k WordsCompleted A Secret Crush, Bitter as Summer 4.4kReads—Score—Shelves

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    This is a campus romance novel filled with heartache. She endured countless summers of bittersweet love for him, a secret crush she'd had since birth, loving her childhood sweetheart. She never dared to confess, fearing the loss of a friend. To love someone and remain a friend, she studied tirelessly, even ending up at the bottom of her class just to be near him, finding happiness in catching a glimpse of him from afar. When he mocked her for being last, she didn't get angry, but instead congratulated and envied his first-place finish. Then, her wealthy roommate and the school beauty appeared, a rival for his affections. Her life began to crumble; his side no longer seemed hers. The school beauty asked her to deliver a love letter, and he thought... She confessed her feelings, and the trampled love letter left her heartbroken and devastated. But she feigned amnesia, wanting to be brave once more, and she experienced unprecedented happiness. His love was real until he discovered she had lied to him, faking amnesia. She was abandoned, and she didn't want to talk to him anymore. So she went on a trip, promising to marry him the following year. But on this day next year, she received his engagement invitation in person. Her heart was in turmoil, and she stubbornly refused to go. Suddenly, she felt incredibly bitter, yet she still went out of jealousy. Then, even more desperate, she attended his wedding with the school beauty. She was supposed to be the one wearing the wedding dress, but why, while she was in agony, did he propose to her at the wedding with the school beauty's ring?

15. 65 我 My Youthful Romance 我的青春爱恋 Sparse Shadows in the Apricot Grove杏坛疏影Modern Romance103k WordsOngoing Lin Wan had a secret talent: the poems she wrote reflected the truest colors of people’s hearts. Then, one autumn, Zheng Hao, wearing a dark green sweater, stood in the light and asked her if she liked Yu Qiuyu. For the first time, her pen trembled, and the colors on the page blurred into something out of place. She spent three years of her youth writing poems for him, gave him her first night beneath the moonlight in a white shirt, and even followed him into the neon-lit depths of the night. Bu 62Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I don't care if it gets promoted or not, I don't care if it gets traffic, I just want to write our own story of youth!

16. 66 没 No One Loves Him 没有人爱他 The Third Prince's Civilian Girlfriend三太子的圈外女友32k WordsCompleted No One Loves Him 527Reads—Score—Shelves

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    His world was always raining.

17. 67 涅 Nirvana: Journey to the Isle in the River 涅槃：走向在河之洲 No Idea What to Call Myself不晓得叫啥名Modern Romance731k WordsCompleted (An interschool secret-crush story. Come see whether it’s to your taste.) Is it a crime to love Shen Tingzhou? Why did this sincere secret crush become a joke? Is it a crime to want to become a better person? Why have all my efforts been in vain? Is it a crime to long for someone’s true affection? Why do those smiles conceal betrayal and scheming, again and again? Yes, she is guilty. From the moment she bubbled in the wrong answer on her test sheet, she was already beyond forgiveness. 9Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The female lead has always liked the male lead, but she can only listen to his rumors all she knows. [Crying]

18. 68 谁 Who Says I Don't Like You? 谁说我讨厌你啦？ Like a Scene, Like Brocade似景似锦Modern Romance110k WordsOngoing "I like him more than anyone, and I hate him more than anyone." -[Sweet and angsty, high school romance, healing, two top students Content warning: The female lead has suicidal tendencies, depression, and anxiety] At first, they couldn't stand each other. Until her deliberate efforts to keep her distance started getting under his skin, so he deliberately kept making his presence felt around her. Through his efforts, he succeeded in falling for her. And she became unable to live without him. But 32Reads—Score109Shelves

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    This is so brutal! [Laughs]

19. 69 盛 The Height of Summer 盛夏为炽 Where Can One Find Tao何处可陶37k WordsCompleted The Height of Summer 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Slightly angsty, I read it all in one go. Although it's a short story, the narrative is very complete. [Sending heart]

20. 70 校 The Campus Heartthrob's First Love Is Back, and I Can No Longer Hide My Love Letters 校草白月光回国，我暗恋情书藏不住 Tangerine Sand桔沙8k WordsCompleted The campus heartthrob's first love is back in the country, and I can't hide my secret love letter anymore. 876Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is a campus romance novel filled with heartbreak. The poor and unattractive girl, in the bittersweet years of her youth, harbored a secret crush on the aloof school heartthrob. She finally mustered the courage to confess, only to have her pride trampled upon countless times. She swallowed her bitter tears, enduring his indulging in the mockery of his unrequited love, and allowing everyone to insult her as unworthy. He even drank the Americano she always brought him while playing basketball, and she had to watch him, his unrequited love, and his seemingly perfect match with him, feeling jealous despite her lack of recognition. His unrequited love even sought help from her online boyfriend to have her defiled, only to be met with cold indifference. He began to show passion yet restraint when she publicly framed him, but it was too late; all love had shattered into hatred, yet the hatred was incomplete. After losing her memory, she repeatedly fell in love with the person she liked at first sight, leading to a shotgun wedding. After regaining her memory, she lost all hope in him and considered divorce and escaping him. After many years apart, why did their broken relationship reunite? What turning point led her to need his help?

21. 71 我 My Younger Days 我的年少时 Xun Bai荀柏Modern Romance144k WordsCompleted I dedicate this book to the youth I had only once, and which I regret so deeply losing! [Redemption + Unrequited Love + Mutual Devotion + Bad Ending] When you aren't brave enough as a teenager, you grow up with regrets. All these years, fate has always been like this: it has given me so much, but it has also made me lose so much. Sometimes I think, let it be. Life is long, with more sorrow than joy. It's not one particular thing that leaves you gasping for breath. It's the slow realization 39Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 72 南 From South City to North, Safe in His Heart 南城向北，安于心尖 Xun Bai荀柏Modern Romance171k WordsCompleted [Sweet youth romance + tragic love + bittersweet ending] Whose youth isn't filled with confusion? Whose youth has no regrets? From the primordial chaos came yin and yang; hatred is love pushed to its extreme. These years have felt like a long journey through storms. I've drifted for half my life, going around in circles. I wish that every time, you could be by my side. They didn't get a good life together this time. If there's a next life, I hope they never meet. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 73 爱 The Crybaby Tsundere Girl Slowly Wins Over Me, Though I'm Ready to Die 爱哭傲娇女，把赴死的我逐步攻略 Mad Wolf发癫的狼Urban130k WordsOngoing [Everyday life + campus + healing and salvation + growth + one heroine] Xiao Sheng is seriously ill, with his life hanging by a thread. His disappointing life is filled with bitterness: a broken family, the oppression of a serious illness, betrayal by friends... With little time left to live, he hopes to live freely and leave no regrets. The unfinished trips, the university of his dreams, the feelings he never managed to confess... His high-ponytailed deskmate is a haughty, tearful crybaby. They 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A critically ill, warm-hearted boy versus a crybaby; the male and female leads redeem each other. The author planted many foreshadowing elements, and the plot is both sweet and heart-wrenching—it's so moving! [Crying][crying][crying]

24. 74 十 Elegy at Eighteen 十八岁的挽歌 Forging an Edge from Ashen Snow烬雪裁锋15k WordsCompleted Elegy at Eighteen 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is a new story, and I'm recommending it myself. It's a fantastic example of youth-themed melancholy literature, and I hope everyone will offer their valuable feedback.

25. 75 被 The Whole School Bullied Me as a Fat Pig. Then I Was Reunited with My Rich Family, and the Former School Hunk Tricked Me into Marriage. Now He's Dead for Good 被全校霸凌是肥猪，认回豪门前校草骗婚我，他死透了 Tangerine Sand桔沙10k WordsCompleted The whole school bullied me for being a fat pig. Before I was acknowledged by my wealthy family, the campus heartthrob tricked me into marrying him. He’s dead now. 108Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is a campus romance novel. In the beginning, the handsome male lead abuses and manipulates the overweight and unattractive female lead, leading to their marriage and children. When the female lead learns the truth, she devastates the male lead, unable to comprehend his true nature. Near the end, the second male lead appears.

26. 76 一 A Lonely Secret Joy 《一个人的窃囍》 Summer Roses Are Stunning夏季的玫瑰美艳动人21k WordsCompleted Theft of Joy, Alone 29Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 77 十 Moonlight on the Seventeenth Floor 《十七楼的月光》 Summer Roses Are Stunning夏季的玫瑰美艳动人25k WordsCompleted Moonlight on the Seventeenth Floor 65Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 78 老 Don't Be Afraid, Honey. I Have a Redemption System to Help Me Win You Back 老婆别怕，我有赎罪系统换我追你 One Bored Rich Lady无聊富婆一枚Modern Romance203k WordsCompleted “Runaway Heiress x Possessive New Money Peacock” “Mind Reading + Both Reborn + Wife-Chasing System” * In her previous life, Song Yi was an untouchable heiress who treated Jiang Lin like a plaything. She took him by force, abandoned him, then left the country without a second thought. Later, when the Song family went bankrupt, he was the only person who could save her. He trapped her in a five-year marriage, holding her captive. Everyone said Jiang Lin was a distant, untouchable flower: cold, ele 2.8kReads—Score121Shelves

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    A runaway heiress x a narcissistic nouveau riche. In their past life, he was abandoned, fueling his hatred. He imprisoned her in marriage for five years, ultimately resulting in their deaths. In this life, the aloof beauty goes all out, relentlessly pursuing his wife. 💏

29. 79 他 His Little Sweet Pomelo 他的小甜柚 Always Happy常乐Modern Romance551k WordsCompleted Original title: His Sweet Pomelo [Transmigration+27-year age gap+secret crush+long-planned romance+both virgins+brooding, obsessive hero who has been to prison+sweet, innocent heroine+Fujian customs+from school uniforms to wedding dresses] In a nutshell: She transmigrates back to her parents’ student days and falls in love with her dad’s sworn enemy. Left You inexplicably transmigrates back to the year 2000, and the moment she appears, Tang Li, who became a young mother without even having to go 232Reads—Score—Shelves

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    With a 27-year age gap, the female lead recreates her husband's teenage years!

30. 80 校 A Bittersweet Campus Romance 校园苦涩爱情 Wood Drifting Across the Seas木浮四海Modern Romance101k WordsCompleted This is a campus romance about a boy and a girl whose misunderstandings lead them from dislike to love, and eventually to a bitter breakup. It reminds us that sometimes, once you miss your chance, you miss it for a lifetime. Treasure everything you have now. 79Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I recommend a new book!

31. 81 谁 Who Says Childhood Sweethearts Are Meant to Be Together? 谁说青梅竹马，天生一对 Passionate Yeah浓烈的Yeah25k WordsCompleted Who Says Childhood Sweethearts Are Destined to Be Together? 12Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 82 很 I'm So Lucky It Was You 很幸运是你 i Cheni陈Modern Romance141k WordsOngoing “Why are you crying?” “I just feel like I haven’t been good enough to you. Li Ruoheng, were you hurting a lot before?” “Because of you, I’ve gradually come to believe that Jiang Xing can be lucky after all.” Their story began with a fleeting glimpse on a high-speed train, planting the seed of Jiang Xing’s secret crush. Along the way, in the gamble called “unrequited love,” Lu Jue left her with nothing. But in the end, Li Ruoheng made her the biggest winner of all... He heals her; her secret crus 14Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This 111

33. 83 浪 The Waves Trust the Clouds’ Whiteness 浪花信任云的白 Qinghe Qinghe清和清和Modern Romance355k WordsCompleted Two souls fall into a campus dream; reunited on a Middle Eastern battlefield | Doctors Without Borders × frontier defense hero | unhinged yet restrained, healing regret | sweet, bittersweet tension | rekindled romance | devoted to each other, happy ending A three-day romance in their youth, followed by twelve years apart across mountains and seas · Mature adults wearing the guise of high schoolers, falling into the most heart-wrenching romance in a dream · Each other's cure and salvation; a god 80Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The main story is complete. • Mature men and women, disguised as high school students, experience the most heart-wrenching romance in a dream. • Mutual remedies and redemptions; a god descends from the Middle East battlefield, and they reunite in reality—a super sweet love story. (The last line appears to be a fragment and doesn't translate directly.)

34. 84 爱 Love Is No Myth 爱情没有神话 A Brief Taste, Then Gone浅尝辄逝Modern Romance121k WordsCompleted Contemporary Romance, Powerful Families, Domineering CEO, Reunited After Years Apart, Obsessive and Cunning, Urban Romance The novel Layer Upon Layer of Forest, All Dyed in Ink is also known as Love Is No Myth. At 28, Qiao Zilin is a single woman making her way through the surging currents of city life. Perceptive and self-possessed, she is used to keeping her feelings hidden behind a composed exterior. Childhood sweethearts for more than twenty years, she and Ji Zai'an went from youthful ties 170Reads—Score120Shelves

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    Let Me Look at You, Love Has No Myths, by Xin Yiwu, Campus Novel Recommendation:

35. 85 浮 A Life Adrift in the Clouds! 浮生萦云！ A Brief Taste, Then Gone浅尝辄逝Ancient Romance131k WordsOngoing Ancient-style xianxia x past lives and present life x scheming, obsessive love interest x tragic romance Floating Life Entwined with Clouds (also known as Floating Life Entwined with Clouds!) <Happiness waits quietly, while turmoil lies in wait. When a fragile mortal must enter a world of gods and demons, the dangers she faces are far more daunting than saving a lovesick devil. He and she sway between illusion and obsession, traversing cycle after cycle of memories. It is all like a mellow, into 226Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 86 穆 The Riverside Scene of Muling 穆棱上河图 Batu拔都Modern Romance180k WordsCompleted The Muling River is an important river in eastern Heilongjiang and the largest tributary on the left bank of the Ussuri River. It runs for 834 kilometers and drains an area of 18,427 square kilometers, passing through Muling City, Jixi City, Jidong County, Mishan City, and Hulin City. Locals call it the “Mother River.” I was fortunate enough to live there until I came of age. I left as an adult and have never been back. Some memories of people and things from those days are still vivid, and ther 27Reads—Score—Shelves

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    High school life. Pure and beautiful. Love and friendship were crystal clear.

37. 87 蝶 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 Ni Ah Ni Ge Ni氼啊氼个氼55k WordsCompleted 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 319Reads—Score—Shelves

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    📝 This novel, *Butterfly Shadow Returns to Dust*, is considered a masterpiece not just because of its heartbreaking ending, but because it etches every iconic scene into the reader's very being. Here's a list of the moments that broke my emotional defenses throughout the book; after reading it, you'll definitely want to finish it overnight: 🦋 Memorable Scene 1: Ten Years Later, "Sir, you've mistaken me for someone else." He knelt before the Yang family mansion for an entire day, his temples completely white, just to beg for an audience. She wore a kimono and replied to him in broken Chinese, "Sir, you've mistaken me for someone else." After turning away, she leaned against a deserted corner, biting her hand and weeping silently. This is the most painful "so close yet so far" moment in the entire book—loving someone to the point of death, yet having to push the one you love away with your own hands. 🌿 Memorable Scene 2: Yang Yanchen's "Next Life" The moment the bullet pierced her chest, this man who had never touched a finger of hers knelt in a pool of blood, trembling all over. He held her, his eyes red, and asked, "In the next life, let's be an ordinary husband and wife, okay?" A final smile appeared on her lips: "Yes, okay." In this life, he only received one promise from her for the next life. This was more heartbreaking than any physical possession. 🍼 Scene Three: Raising an Enemy's Son, Never Acknowledging Him Until Death. Everyone believed Xiao Qihao's son was Ping'er's, even Zhang Zhiming had held the child. But he didn't know that the child was named "Yi'an," his and Die'er's biological child. He searched for her for most of his life, believing until his death that they had no blood relation. That sense of destiny—"meeting but forever missing each other"—is truly too painful! 💔 Each of these knives pierces the heart. Sisters who dared to watch, tell me in the comments which scene made you break down in tears? [Crying][crying][almost crying][crying][crying][crying][crying]

38. 88 他 He Watched Her in Secret for Two Years 他偷看了她两年 Han An Jing涵桉婧Modern Romance369k WordsCompleted [Secret Campus Crush + Tragic Ending + Dual Perspectives] [The Coward × The One He Admires] If he'd been a little braver back then, would things have turned out differently? She would never know that someone had loved her for his entire youth. They accidentally collided at the turn in the stairwell, and she blushed, apologized, then turned and walked away. But in that moment, he etched her image into his heart. He waited at the finish line during PE, watching for her to run up. At fla 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is good, but the beginning is a little angsty, which is okay, but it gets gradually more angsty later on.

39. 89 被 A Heartthrob Takes Over His Body, and the Timid Doormat Takes the Whole School by Storm 被男神魂穿，软糯受气包飒翻全校 One Bored Rich Lady无聊富婆一枚Modern Romance231k WordsOngoing The refined, scheming crown prince VS the soft, timid little bunny with an inferiority complex Healing | Unrequited Love Comes True | Soul Transmigration | Reborn and Pursuing His Wife Xie Yanci opens his eyes and finds that he has transmigrated into someone else’s body! He has ended up in the body of Song Qiwan, a girl who lets everyone walk all over her. The girl clutches a diary filled with his name as her bullies pin her down in the restroom and pour dirty water over her head. The school’s 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The heartthrob ignored her for three years, then his soul transmigrated into her body, witnessing firsthand how she was bullied and slandered! He immediately slapped her across the face, using her body to dominate the entire school, his madness even making him cheat on himself!

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