Any Extremely Angsty, Dark Novels That Aren't Romance? 有那种特别虐、特别黑暗、不属于言情的吗？

1. 1 人 A Human Cage 人间囚笼 Yan Yizhi言一知Urban538k WordsCompleted [Not a wish-fulfillment story + extremely dark + oppressive and suffocating. Don’t read if you’re faint of heart.] When you’re nearing the end of your life, you can actually feel it coming. Just like right now. The closer that moment gets, the more you want to leave something behind in this world. But what should I leave? Assets lose value, and houses change hands. Nothing material can last forever. So perhaps I should tell everyone my story instead. I’m no good person. I just occasionally feel 112.6kReads9.5Score16.1kShelves

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   Beautiful, very supportive

2. 2 我 I'm Dying, Can You Leave Me Alone? 我要死了，能别来打扰我吗？ The Landlord's Orange Cat房东家的橘猫Urban429k WordsCompleted (This story includes traditional mythology, mainly to set things up for the male and female leads. Let me say it again: the protagonist does not cultivate immortality! The protagonist does not cultivate immortality! The mythology doesn’t take up much of the story. For reference, see Fox Spirit Matchmaker. If you don’t like it, please don’t read.) As for why it’s listed under urban slice-of-life, the System assigned the category automatically.) [Regret + No Forgiveness + Angst] In the face of 2.1kReads9.1Score197Shelves

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   ☕🍰📗 (There are traditional mythological elements, which mainly pave the way for the male and female protagonists. I emphasize again: the protagonist does not cultivate immortality! The protagonist does not cultivate immortality! There is not much text in the mythology part. For details, you can refer to The Little Matchmaker of the Fox Demon. If you don't like it, don't enter.

3. 3 命 With Only Two Months to Live, They Finally Break Down and Repent 命剩最后两月，他们终于崩溃忏悔 Xiao Baihu筱白狐Urban224k WordsCompleted [Tearjerker]+ [Heartbreaking]+ [Bad Ending]+ [No Clichés, Realistic Story] The world beneath the neon lights is dazzling, but it has never shone for just one person. Lonely souls are always searching for comfort, but the medicine that could heal their wounds died long ago in childhood. When the stories they left behind finally become known, all that awaits them is a corpse that has long since grown cold. His parents spend their entire lives mired in a failed marriage, treating Bai Mo like a garb 13.3kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
4. 4 高 High-IQ Masterminds of Revenge: They Call Me a Madman 高智商复仇家，他们叫我疯子 Leaves Can't Predict Autumn叶难知秋Mystery525k WordsCompleted [No Female Lead] [Mad Protagonist] [Elegant] [High-IQ Crimes] [No System] Ten years ago, the Shen family was wiped out by a mysterious organization known as the Alliance. Shen Feng was beaten to death and left in the wilderness. Now, Shen Feng’s soul has returned from hell. That day, the criminal investigation squad received a call from a mysterious person claiming he would kill the famous CEO Liu Ruxu at a shareholders’ meeting. The nightmare began at that very moment. Shen Feng planned one per 42.4kReads9.5Score4.4kShelves
5. 5 猎 Time to Hunt: The Tragic Novel's Heroine Awakens 猎杀时刻，虐文女主觉醒之后 Cat Eats Meat Buns猫吃肉包Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Green tea scheming + love-triangle chaos + punishing scumbags + genuine regret and redemption + strategy] There’s a pitiable creature in this world called the tragic-romance heroine. She’s abused in body and soul by scumbag men and wicked women, only to be forced into a happy ending in the end. Ever since Lin You took on commissions to help tragic-romance heroines escape their fates, she’d been running wild through one tragic romance after another. Some regretted everything: “I’m sorry. Please 1.1kReads9.0Score100Shelves

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   🔥🔥Highly recommended🔥🔥 Come and see it all🔥🔥 [Green Tea + Shura Field + Abuse + Real Crematorium + Guide] There is a pitiful creature in the world called the heroine of the abuse novel. In the plot of physical and mental abuse, he was ravaged by scumbag men and bad women in every possible way, and in the end he was forced to celebrate a happy reunion.

6. 6 和 Everyone Who's Had a Child with Their Archrival Knows! 和宿敌生过孩子的都知道！ Chang Li Ting Huo长离听火Urban353k WordsCompleted [One heroine + late-arriving System + sweet romance + urban daily life + former-life nemesis, present-life wife + child first, romance later] A nemesis is a nemesis, you know~ A nemesis can’t become your wife, and there’s no way you could have a child with her. Once she becomes your wife, you can’t look your nemesis in the eye and honestly tell her, “I’m going to kill you.” Once you have a child, you can’t chase her around, bully her mercilessly, and then watch her bawl her eyes out. All you can 10.8kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
7. 7 恋 Love: My Childhood-Sweetheart Girlfriend Broke Up with Me Before School Started 恋爱，开学前青梅女友跟我提分手 Xiaohan in Zhejiang小涵在浙江Urban395k WordsCompleted [One heroine + Angst before sweetness + Urban slice of life + Unrequited love] (Shen Rubing is not the heroine, so read on without worry.) This love should last forever. If you no longer love me, then I’ll walk away. Lin Hua and Shen Rubing had been childhood friends. They became a couple in their first year of high school, and both their families were happy to see them stay together for good... Sadly, everything changed after they arrived in Xujiang. Outside a bar, Shen Rubing coldly cast aside 429Reads5.4Score—Shelves
8. 8 被 Imprisoned by My Yandere Campus Belle, I Can’t Stop Crying 被病娇校花囚禁，我哭唧唧 Xing Xiaoyu星小语Urban341k WordsCompleted [Gender-bender romance + one-on-one romance + mildly yandere + groveling pursuit] My name is Ye Xi. Turning into a little girl isn't even the worst part. The worst part is that I accidentally scraped the rich young lady's luxury car. After working for months, I have to save every penny so I can escape her clutches as soon as possible. At last, I found the perfect chance. After giving the young lady the runaround, I managed to get away. … Life after escaping is great, but I haven't even had time 3.7kReads8.8Score339Shelves
9. 9 死 After I Died, He Began to Love Me 死后，他开始爱我 Mu Shuilin木水林Modern Romance334k WordsCompleted Sang Yuan never expected that, after an accident, her husband Gu Yuhui would have his memories sent back to when he was eighteen, a time when he loved someone else. Every night, Gu Yuhui would regain a month’s worth of memories. In those dreams, he fell in love with his unrequited love all over again. He was convinced there was no love in his marriage to Sang Yuan. Then Sang Yuan died, and his memories returned to the moment they first met. She had been a ray of light that illuminated his world 7.7kReads9.1Score586Shelves
10. 10 强 Possessed by Force, I Can’t Escape the Devil 强势占有，遇上恶魔逃不掉 A Dreamlike Yellow Millet黄粱一萌Modern Romance570k WordsCompleted The twin sisters, who had only just come into the world, should have been born to lives of privilege. But a malicious plot abruptly changed the course of their fate. The younger sister was abandoned at the hospital, and from then on her life took a completely different path. The elder sister was like a beautiful flower in a greenhouse, basking in her parents’ love as she grew into a young heiress admired by all. But the younger sister was taken back to the countryside by a woman who worked as a 19.8kReads7.2Score909Shelves
11. 11 我 I Want a Complete Family 我想要个完整的家 Chuan Shenyan川慎言18k WordsCompleted I Want a Complete Family 58Reads—Score—Shelves

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    [Bookshelf plus one][Seeking attention][Laughing and crying]

12. 12 百 Happy Hundredth Birthday 百岁生日快乐 Chuan Shenyan川慎言8k WordsCompleted Happy 100th Birthday 27Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 13 虚 Beyond the Void, the Great Dao Knows No Bounds 虚无之上，大道无极 A Lone Shadow on a Thousand Snowy Rivers孤影千江雪Urban633k WordsOngoing When you gaze up at the stars, have you ever wondered why we can't leave the Solar System? Could there really be countless parallel worlds and countless versions of ourselves throughout space and time? And what lies beyond the world we can perceive? Do cultivators truly exist? Cultivation is, in fact, an attempt to leap between dimensions. The highest realm of cultivation is to cultivate the void, refine nothingness into godhood, and unravel the universe's ultimate mysteries. An amnesiac high-le 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book is very sad, very sweet, very realistic, very fantasy, very dark, but also full of hope. The key is that there are many junior sisters and the male protagonist is strong.

14. 14 暗 Sacrifice in the Darkroom 暗室的献祭 The Little Noob Who Won't Peck at Rice小菜鸡不啄米Modern Romance52k WordsCompleted A car accident: Shen Mi struck and killed two-year-old Meng Xuan. Guilt and self-reproach swallowed her whole, and she disappeared. When she woke again, she was in a lightless basement. Handcuffed by her left hand, she faced Meng Xuan's memorial portrait on the wall. The man keeping her prisoner was Meng Xuan's father, Meng Yu. “I want you to live in torment. I want you to wish you were dead.” A razor blade sliced her wrist, a toothpick pierced beneath her fingernail, and a cigarette burned her 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It has nothing to do with love. The whole story is very short but very depressing and sadistic throughout. At first I thought it was a story of revenge and atonement, but later I found out that it was not at all. It reversed and reversed again and again. After the reversal, it became even more sadistic, and it also led to the deeper root of the reason why the heroine is so painful. No spoilers, the article is short, read it yourself if you like!

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