Novels That Put the Male Lead Through the Wringer, Angsty Novels, Angsty Novels 虐男主的小说，虐文，虐文

1. 1 打 A Working-Class Packhorse and His Cheating Wife 打工牛马，劈腿妻 A Heart Dancing in the Wind随风飘舞的心Urban1.1M WordsOngoing Chen Yu never imagined that coming home without warning would lead him to find another man in his own house. After seven years together, just as they were about to get married, his fiancée, Ning Feifei, had cheated on him. While he was away, she had let another man move into his home. Ning Feifei said the man was her close male friend, someone who understood her deeply. He had filled the loneliness in her heart while Chen Yu was gone. Chen Yu was furious. They had to break up, no question. Witho 25.8kReads6.5Score1.3kShelves

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   Chen Yu and Ning Feifei have been in love for seven years. Just when their love has reached fruition, Chen Yu accidentally returns home and discovers that Ning Feifei has actually brought a man back home. Ning Feifei's explanation was that this man was her best friend. He just lived at home and there was nothing between the two of them. Faced with such an unbearable scene, what choice should Chen Yu make?

2. 2 水 A Night Raid at the Reservoir, and Now I’m Being Blamed for It 水库夜袭，被抓包后我被赖上了 Good Little Nuobao乖乖诺宝Modern Romance229k WordsCompleted In the summer of 1979, Zhang Chaoyan did something that rocked Xiaojiaying Village: she stripped the battle hero Lu Ting of his entire uniform, right down to his underwear. It started when someone drugged Lu Ting at a fellow soldier's wedding banquet. In the middle of the night, he was soaking in the reservoir with his shirt off. To get back at him for harassing her, Zhang Chaoyan knocked him unconscious and took all his clothes. She thought the matter was over, but the very next morning, the n 387Reads—Score106Shelves

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   The female protagonist has superb medical skills, but the male protagonist is a bit of a hooligan and likes to spread rumors, so every time the female protagonist punishes him severely and abuses his body. The female protagonist also has a lot of romantic partners, and the male protagonist is stabbed in the heart basically every day, and he abuses both his body and his heart!

3. 3 无 The Heartless Mage II 无心法师二 The Writer Who Loves Badminton爱打羽毛球的作家Female-Channel Fanfiction110k WordsCompleted After enduring countless hardships, the Heartless Mage finally seals Yue Qiluo in Pig Head Mountain. His beloved woman has been cruelly murdered, and he has avenged her. Everything should have ended there: the Heartless Mage loses his memory and leaves, while Gu Xuanwu continues to rule his city. But what none of them expect is that this story is far from over. 104Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Master Wuxin is a novel full of fantasy magic and conspiracy. It is like a perfect combination of fairy tale drama and suspense film. Friends who like fantasy adventures must not miss it!

4. 4 无 The Unbending Master: King's System 无心法师之王者系统 The Frustrating Divider无奈的分割线Mystery471k WordsOngoing Zhang Xianzong, who had been lonely and miserable since childhood, died of a heart attack while playing Honor of Kings! He transmigrated to the Republican era, a time when order had collapsed. Though Zhang Xianzong was never a kind man to begin with, he met Yue Qiluo as if he were in a TV drama! When the soul is no longer bound, should you control yourself or let go? Ghosts and gods are nothing to fear. In this “peerlessly glamorous” era, people are the most terrifying thing of all! But none of 56Reads5.4Score—Shelves
5. 5 穿 I Transmigrated into Heartless Mage: Nine Netherworlds Profound Heaven Divine Skill from the Start 穿越无心法师，开局九幽玄天神功 The Violinist Who Needs a Boost加强小提琴家Mystery98k WordsOngoing Zhang Xianzong suddenly transmigrates into the TV series The Masterless Priest, the show he had never gotten over, and gains a golden finger. Just as he thinks he’s about to become a warlord, the System says, “Congratulations, Host! You’ve received the Beginner’s Gift Pack: the Nine Nether Dark Heaven Divine Art, perfected!” Zhang Xianzong is stunned. Going by the sound of that, I must be at the Great Heavenly Position! “Please remain calm, Host. Your current cultivation level is the Minor Star 27Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 6 你 You Call That a Healer? She Bludgeons Everyone to Death 你管这叫奶妈？她把人头都锤爆了 Mu Huichun暮回春Ancient Romance3.6M WordsOngoing The print edition of I Can Pluck the Stars is available on all platforms. Genius + rich woman from the start. The day Ning Ruan left her village, a menace appeared on the Nine Provinces Continent. A mage? A sword cultivator? No, she just wanted to be a healer! All the continent’s geniuses: Shut up, you poisonous healer! Later: “Help! I never knew healers could heal people to death until I met Ning Ruan!” “But isn’t she a metal-element spiritual adept?” “Isn’t she wood-element?” “She’s clearl 221.8kReads9.5Score19.2kShelves
7. 7 当 When Yue Qiluo Is Reborn in the Apocalypse 当岳绮罗重生在末世 Good Fortune Brings Treasures来福进宝Ancient Romance329k WordsCompleted In this life, Yue Qiluo found Zhang Xianzong. Zhang Xianzong looked at Yue Qiluo pitifully. "Can I go home with you? I don't have anywhere to stay." Yue Qiluo frowned. What should she do? She was starting to find him a little annoying. 89Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 8 无 The Heartless Yin-Yang Master 无心阴阳师 Lu Wenxing鲁闻星Mystery630k WordsCompleted I had no heart. Then one day, a beautiful and mysterious woman brought me one and said she wanted to be my wife... 8Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 9 杏 When Spring Deepens After the Apricot Blossoms Set Fruit 杏花结子春深后 Still Remembering Sky-Blue Porcelain犹忆天青瓷Ancient Romance276k WordsCompleted She is a lowly convict slave in the palace laundry, humble as dust. He is the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace, noble and radiant. Though their stations could hardly be further apart, they fall hopelessly in love. Only when their feelings are at their deepest does she unexpectedly learn that his father, the emperor, had her father framed so he could claim her mother for himself. Where can this ill-fated romance spanning two generations possibly lead? ----- A prince steals his minister’s wife + 659Reads—Score102Shelves

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   It's so sad, the male and female protagonists have been fighting each other for a lifetime, it's heartbreaking, it makes you cry until you burst into tears, it's hard to calm down! The second male lead is also very infatuated, and the three of them pull each other off to make you happy. I like the author's light Chinese style writing and melancholy style.

10. 10 虚 My Vain Wife Cheated, So I Turned Around and Made Her Untouchable 虚荣妻子出轨我转身让她高不可攀 A Heart Dancing in the Wind随风飘舞的心Urban858k WordsCompleted Ye Chen never imagined that his wife of more than ten years would cheat on him. When he saw her get out of a BMW and act intimately with the man behind the wheel, he was so shocked he could barely think. Even less did Ye Chen expect his second wife to still be pining for the one who got away, or that, worst of all, that man would come back. Ye Chen, an ordinary wage earner, had always thought his life was happy and complete. He had a beautiful, capable wife and a clever, sweet, adorable daughter 20.7kReads7.4Score1.7kShelves

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    Unexpectedly, his wife would get out of a BMW and have an affair with the owner of the BMW. Ye Chen knew that the wife he had always loved had cheated on her. Divorce at the beginning, rise up at the turn, and make the cheating wife unattainable.

11. 11 小 Even a Lowly Son-in-Law Can Throw His Weight Around 小小赘婿也猖狂 A Heart Dancing in the Wind随风飘舞的心Historical310k WordsCompleted Ye Fan transmigrates. Other people transmigrate with a System or end up in an imperial household as a prince or heir. But poor Ye Fan transmigrates into a farming family and becomes a live-in son-in-law. His wife, Liu Ruyan, has someone else in her heart and has no affection for Ye Fan at all. She is determined to get rid of him so she can be with the man she loves. Ye Fan refuses to believe that, as someone who transmigrated, he can’t carve out a place for himself in this era with the knowledge 281Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 12 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 327Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I have loved him for ten years, but I am only worthy of being her shadow. The first time I saw him, I was being chased and pushed into a fire pit. He rescued me from the traffickers, took off his coat and put it on my shoulders, and said warmly: "Girl, you are free." From that moment on, I knew that I was destined to follow him for the rest of my life. Not because of repayment, but because - he was the first person who didn't want anything from me and just wanted me to live. I followed him around, trying to find someone with him. I've been looking for it for ten years. His temples turned completely white overnight at Anqing Ferry one year. Because someone told him that his wife had appeared there. He chased you for three days and three nights, but it was not you who he chased. He squatted on the dock all night. When I found him the next day, his temples were completely white. He never cried when he drank. When I'm awake I don't shed a single tear. Only drunk, lying alone on the inn bed, shouting "Die'er, Die'er, where are you, where are you", tears flowing from the corners of the eyes into the pillow. I wiped it for him. He never knew. He bought the house in the south of the city. The yard is filled with gardenias, the swing is set up, and the children's room is decorated. He goes there every year, sitting alone in the empty yard and staring at the gardenia tree in a daze. The flowers bloom and then fade, and then bloom again. You never came back. Later, he finally found her. She stood in the pavilion, wearing a simple and elegant kimono, her eyebrows were as cold as frost, like someone walking out of a painting. I stood outside the pavilion and suddenly felt that I was very, very small - like a grass on the roadside. I looked up and saw a flower blooming in the sky. I was illiterate, my hands were covered with calluses from washing and cooking, and I was wearing coarse clothes that had turned white from washing. And on her, even the folds on her cuffs are beautiful. No wonder. No wonder he missed her for so many years. That day, he knelt in front of the Yang Mansion all day long, exchanging all his family property for betrothal gifts, and just wanted to beg her to come back. She refused. She said to him in unfamiliar Japanese - "Sir, you have the wrong person." When he walked out, the light in his eyes went out. He walked past me without even seeing me. She was always the only one in his eyes. I rushed into the pavilion, knelt in front of her, and told her every word of the suffering he had suffered over the years while crying. His search, his longing, his drunkenness, his insomnia, his gray hair. I don't want anything else but to ask her to come back - as long as she is willing to come back, I can leave. I can disappear completely. She just stood there, looking at me expressionlessly. Finally, she said something coldly in that unfamiliar tone - "If you love him, stay by his side and warm him. Sooner or later, he will feel your love and accept you." Then she turned around and walked away step by step. I know she is not heartless. In her sleeves, the blood from her fingernails had stained the lining red. Like me, she is using the coldest expression to hide the most painful heart. Later he finally married me. On the wedding day, he drank a lot of wine and became unconscious. I helped him back to the room, and he leaned on my shoulder and shouted her name. A year later I gave birth to my daughter, and he named her Niandie. Zhang Zhiming's daughter, Zhang Niandie. It dawned on me at that moment. In this life, in his heart, I will always be just a shadow of her. Niandie, Niandie. If you keep thinking about it, there will be no response. Until his death, he carried the silver butterfly hairpin she left in his arms. I stood in front of his grave without crying. I just put another hairpin, the one she last wore on her head, with his. "You are finally reunited." I said, "She has been waiting for you all her life, and you have been waiting for her all her life. Don't miss it in the next life." And that exquisite crystal ball - the only hand-picked gift he gave her - I quietly put it into my daughter's swaddling clothes. Let Niandie grow up with it. It is the only tenderness left in her father's life. [Cry][almost cry][cry][cry][almost cry]

13. 13 一 A Lifetime: The Lone-Wolf Agent's Gray Eden 一生：孤胆特工之灰色伊甸园 Crouching Dragon, Thunderous Sky潜龙轰天Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The story of Lin Tianming’s growth from boyhood. Please also read this book’s companion novels, Second Life: The Bracelet Across the Universe and Third Life: Love Bewitches the Mortal World. Each of the three novels stands alone, yet together they form a series, with interwoven plots that let you experience the life journey of “two worlds, three lives” and the rise of the century’s dragon, Long Teng! 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Campus growth (one life) + collection of modern urban love stories (three lives), with novel themes and multi-line linkage, jointly weave the life journey of "two lives and three lives"! Worth collecting and tasting! 👍👍👍

14. 14 三 Three Lifetimes: Love Bewitching the Mortal World 三生，，之情惑人间 Crouching Dragon, Thunderous Sky潜龙轰天Modern Romance254k WordsCompleted A collection of modern love and marriage stories. Read this alongside its companion works, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden” and “Two Lives: The Wristband Conquers the Universe.” The storylines intertwine and unfold across multiple threads, bringing together the century-spanning journey of Century Longteng through “Two Lives and Three Incarnations”! (For various reasons, the first book in this series, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden,” and “Root Prisoner: 101 Illusory Loves” are not be 19Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 15 听 Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌 Splashing Water from the Far Bank隔岸拍水Urban186k WordsOngoing Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to 502Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Looking back at dusk: I laughed with tears in my sorrow. Everyone in Tingfeng Tower stood behind others, but behind me, there was no one. I regretted everything and it was worth it.

16. 16 我 I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德 Splashing Water from the Far Bank隔岸拍水10k WordsCompleted I’m a Scout: Zhan De 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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