A Tragic Romance with 45 Chapters That’s Popular on Douyin 抖音上虐文45章的

1. 151 追 I Tracked My Wife’s Location. The Address Was My Best Buddy’s House 追踪妻子定位，地址是我好哥们家 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭Marriage & Romance9k WordsCompleted I Tracked My Wife’s Location. It Led to My Best Friend’s House 143Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Short tragic stories

2. 152 听 Hearing My Wife’s Secrets 听见妻子的秘密 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭9k WordsCompleted I Heard My Wife's Secret 304Reads—Score—14d adds
3. 153 我 After I Took the Fall for My Girlfriend, She Married My Brother 我替女友顶罪后，她嫁给了我的兄弟 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭7k WordsCompleted After I Took the Blame for My Girlfriend, She Married My Brother 27Reads—Score—14d adds
4. 154 最 The Last Diary Entry 最后一篇日记 Sui Ying随楹Modern Romance13k WordsCompleted [Simplified Chinese edition signed for publication] I only used looking at the flowers as an excuse. All I really wanted was to see you once. 27.1kReads9.1Score4.8k14d adds

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   This book is very short, you can finish it in under ten minutes. My best friend and the person she has a crush on are dating. Sigh.

5. 155 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds

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   This is absolutely amazing!!! I'll stay up all night to read it!! Over 900,000 people are reading it online, and it's incredibly addictive! The plot is rich and engaging, with every twist and turn making you want to finish it in one go! Bookworms, get ready to stay up all night!!!

6. 156 她 After She Died, Lord Bo Knelt Before Her Tombstone and Cried Like a Dog 她死后，薄爷跪在墓碑前哭成狗 Lu Jinye陆尽野Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted Six years ago Qiao Yu was a pampered, spoiled heiress who had never lifted a finger around the house. Bo Hanshi was a poor, lonely, and aloof scholar from a humble family, wearing a cheap white shirt. Six years later Qiao Yu is a single mother struggling to make ends meet, humble and alone. Bo Hanshi is a distinguished figure on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, elegant and peerless. When they meet again, his eyes bloodshot, he presses close to her ear and says bitterly, “Qiao Yu, I 29.1kReads9.3Score3.2k14d adds
7. 157 听 After Being Publicly Punished for My Sound Sensitivity, My Heart Died Completely 听觉过敏被当众体罚后，我彻底心死 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭9k WordsCompleted After Being Publicly Punished for My Auditory Hypersensitivity, My Heart Finally Died 155Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Sharing some short, angst-filled stories that are very popular on TikTok!

8. 158 我 I'm Trapped in a Death Loop. Who Is the Real Killer? 我陷入了死亡循环，真凶究竟是谁？ Gazing at the Wind and Moon览风月13k WordsCompleted I'm Trapped in a Death Loop. Who Is the Real Killer? 174Reads—Score—14d adds
9. 159 邻 My Neighbor Complained That Our Late-Night Renovation Caused Her Miscarriage 邻居投诉我家深夜装修害她流产 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭12k WordsCompleted My neighbor complained that my late-night renovations caused her miscarriage. 96Reads—Score—14d adds
10. 160 妻 I Exposed My Wife’s Lies 妻子的谎言，被我拆穿了 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭7k WordsCompleted I Exposed My Wife’s Lies 340Reads—Score—14d adds
11. 161 前 After My Ex-Wife Left With Nothing, She Forced Me to Divide Our Assets Again and Wanted Me to Raise Another Man’s Child 前妻净身出户后，逼我重分财产，还想让我养别人的孩子 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭10k WordsCompleted After my ex-wife walked away with nothing, she forced me to divide our assets again and even wanted me to raise someone else's child. 339Reads—Score—14d adds
12. 162 我 I Found My Wife’s Secret on My Son’s Sports Watch 我在儿子的运动手里表发现了老婆的秘密 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭12k WordsCompleted I Discovered My Wife's Secret in My Son's Sports Watch 20Reads—Score—14d adds
13. 163 订 At Our Engagement Banquet, My Fiancée Who Said She Was Working Late Showed Up as My Uncle’s Date 订婚宴上，说加班的未婚妻成了我小叔的女伴 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭9k WordsCompleted At My Engagement Party, My Fiancée, Who Said She Was Working Late, Showed Up as My Uncle's Date 86Reads—Score—14d adds
14. 164 结 The Night Before Our Wedding, I Caught My Fiancée in a Hotel Suite 结婚前夜，我在酒店套房撞见未婚妻 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭10k WordsCompleted The night before our wedding, I caught my fiancée in a hotel suite. 135Reads—Score—14d adds
15. 165 妻 My Wife Smells Divine, and I’m Losing My Nerve 妻子很香，我很心慌 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭8k WordsCompleted My wife smells so good, but I’m freaking out. 194Reads—Score—14d adds
16. 166 奈 Alas, the Years Have Wasted My Love 奈何流年枉情深 A Ying阿影Modern Romance60k WordsCompleted “Manman, Jin Liang isn’t someone you can afford to love.” Three years ago, Xia Man ignored her father’s advice and stubbornly fell in love with Jin Liang. From then on, she flew straight into the flames, doomed to ruin. She endured humiliation and went to prison just to protect the person he held dearest. His heartlessness left her utterly despairing. After she was left battered and bruised, she stopped loving him. But he searched the ends of the earth for her, arriving before her, weary fro 551Reads6.0Score—14d adds

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    These are all short stories.

17. 167 老 My Wife Had Twin Boys, but Only One Is Mine 老婆生了一对双胞胎儿子，但只有一个是我的 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭12k WordsCompleted My wife gave birth to twin boys, but only one of them is mine. 41Reads—Score—14d adds
18. 168 风 Even Love and Longing Betrayed Me 风月也曾负相思 Gu Shisan顾十三Ancient Romance50k WordsCompleted Her hands were stained with blood, yet she won this vast kingdom for him. He was the ruler, and she was his slave; decades of companionship could not outweigh a single tear from the woman he loved. To save his beloved, he offered her up to the enemy army. She endured every kind of torture, willingly. Still for the sake of his beloved, he severed her left arm, took her unborn child, and drained her blood to keep the other woman alive. Then, with a great army before her, her hair white as snow, sh 168Reads6.1Score—14d adds
19. 169 老 My Wife Brought Home a Male Dog and Won’t Let Me Get Rid of It. Then I Discovered Her Secret 老婆捡回家一只公狗不让我送走，我发现了她的秘密 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭7k WordsCompleted My wife brought home a male dog and wouldn’t let me get rid of it. Then I discovered her secret. 27Reads—Score514d adds

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    Highly recommended heart-wrenching short stories from TikTok!

20. 170 你 You Are the Only Light in My Life 你是我生命里唯一的光 Milk Candy牛奶糖Modern Romance48k WordsCompleted You are the only light in my life 37Reads5.1Score—14d adds
21. 171 婚 On Our Wedding Day, I Gave My Wife a Grand Surprise 婚礼当天，我送老婆一份大礼 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭6k WordsCompleted On our wedding day, I gave my wife a very special gift. 36Reads—Score—14d adds
22. 172 老 Wife, Are You Still Going to Lie to Me? 老婆，你还要对我说谎吗？ Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭14k WordsCompleted Wife, are you still going to lie to me? 152Reads—Score—14d adds
23. 173 我 I’ll Wait for You on the Other Side 我在彼岸等你 Ju Nan橘南Modern Romance49k WordsCompleted You are the tribulation I can never overcome in this life, and I am the longing you can never let go of in this lifetime. I will guard you on the other shore… 6Reads8.0Score—14d adds
24. 174 我 The General Only Said He Loved Me After I Died 我死后将军才说爱我 Grapes That Won't Blow Away吹不散的葡萄Ancient Romance16k WordsCompleted The General Only Said He Loved Me After I Died 584Reads—Score1514d adds

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    Extremely angsty, so angsty it'll make your liver hurt!!

25. 175 许 Make a Wish to Forget You 许一个愿忘记你 Qi Lao You淇老游Modern Romance72k WordsCompleted Tong Anhao says everyone has a unique scent. So, in order to become like her, the white rose in Fu Jinyan's heart, Tong Anhao changes her own scent little by little, day after day, under the guise of being a perfumer. All for the warmth of one smile from him. But as she grows more and more like her, Tong Anhao despairs: a grave will always stand between her and happiness, the grave of Tong Weian! 486Reads8.8Score—14d adds
26. 176 动 The Female Shadow Guard Who Fell in Love 动了心的女暗卫 Grapes That Won't Blow Away吹不散的葡萄Ancient Romance22k WordsCompleted The Female Shadow Guard Who Fell in Love 908Reads—Score—14d adds
27. 177 月 Moonlight No Longer Shines on Dreams of the Past 月光不照昔时梦 Xu Zhimeng许织梦Modern Romance189k WordsCompleted [Angst Warning] Qu Zhao: “Are you afraid…” “Afraid of what?” “That someday, your daughter will meet a man like you, just as I did.” Even the sun will one day die. The Milky Way and Andromeda are expected to collide in three billion years. Everything has an end. What about her and Fu Zongxian? Surely this madness would end someday. In his thirty years of life, Fu Zongxian had never asked for anything for himself. But at that moment, gazing at the photograph of his mother, he couldn’t help praying 2.8kReads8.9Score20214d adds

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    This is the kind of slow-burning angst, without dramatic highs and lows, but it feels like being pricked by needles, full of regrets. In the end, the male lead has no choice but to try to trap the female lead with their child.

28. 178 我 I Took a Concubine for My Husband 我为夫君纳妾 Grapes That Won't Blow Away吹不散的葡萄19k WordsCompleted I Took a Concubine for My Husband 1.1kReads—Score2514d adds
29. 179 红 The Burning Embers of Beauty 红颜烬燃 Grapes That Won't Blow Away吹不散的葡萄Ancient Romance23k WordsCompleted The Beauty's Ashes Burn 680Reads—Score—14d adds
30. 180 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds

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    🥥🥥🥥It's really well made. Even after watching it, you still feel like you're left with a lingering sense of enjoyment. The plot is full of twists and turns, and the villains are truly mind-bending. The text is tightly pieced together to create a bleak world, yet it also illuminates the light in the young man's heart.

31. 181 嫁 Three Years After Marrying the Hero, I Decided to Leave 嫁给男主的三年后，我决定离开了 OTo26k WordsCompleted Three years after marrying the male lead, I decided to leave. 23Reads—Score—14d adds

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    These are all angst-filled stories recommended on Douyin (TikTok), and they're really angst-filled. I definitely couldn't watch them a second time.

32. 182 短 Short Feel-Good Story: Ten Years of Bustling 短篇爽文《十年忙声》 Zheng Wuming郑无名10k WordsCompleted A short power fantasy: Ten Years of Bustling —Reads—Score—14d adds
33. 183 被 After I Was Erased, the Male Lead Regretted It 被抹杀后，男主后悔了 Tu Ji兔叽Modern Romance10k WordsCompleted I pursued Jiang Xu nine times, and failed every single time. The last time, I thought I'd finally succeeded, until the day of our wedding, when he went to take wedding photos with his first love, who had faked a suicide attempt. I begged him through my tears not to leave, but he left anyway. At last, the System erased me for failing the mission. Yet he wept and asked why I couldn't try one more time. 188Reads—Score—14d adds
34. 184 再 I'll Never Love You Again 再也不要爱你 Hard to Kill难杀Modern Romance132k WordsCompleted A short, heart-wrenching story. Extremely heartbreaking! So much melodrama and angst! Read with caution! Please ignore the extra chapter. The author wrote it while losing their mind, and sincerely apologizes! Jian Meng is dying, and Ji Jing’an doesn’t know. He’s busy worrying about his wedding to someone else, indifferent to the poor woman at home. He has always believed Jian Meng would wait for him forever, just as she has for the past ten years. It was the last winter, and Jian Meng’s last bir 17.2kReads8.2Score97414d adds
35. 185 蚀 Love That Cuts to the Bone 蚀骨虐情 Hua Baoyue花抱月Modern Romance534k WordsCompleted [Tragic Romance]+ [The Husband’s Long Road to Redemption] Ruan Yunzheng loved Fu Yinghan deeply. But when his only sister was harmed and all fingers pointed at her, he sentenced her to death without hesitation! He tormented her relentlessly, body and soul, but she never gave in! Only when she was on the brink of death and explained one last time that she hadn’t done it, and he still refused to believe her, did she finally give up on him! So this man’s heart really was made of stone! When news ca 19.9kReads8.3Score1.5k14d adds
36. 186 薄 Goodbye Forever, Brother Bo 薄哥哥，再也不见了 Bunny Pillow兔兔抱枕Modern Romance234k WordsCompleted [Heartbreaking] When she learned she had only a year to live, Bo Qingyuan fled, escaping the hell Bo Muchao had kept her in for six years. She was an unwanted extra, taken in when the Bo family adopted Bo Yinyin. For five years, she served as a bone marrow donor for Bo Yinyin. After Yinyin died, everyone called her a murderer and said she had to atone. Six years imprisoned, six years tormented. Surely she had paid for even the gravest sin by now? At the end of her life, she said, “Brother Bo, le 3.1kReads6.7Score27214d adds
37. 187 虐 After Torturing the Princess Consort to Death, the Regent Went Mad 虐死王妃后，摄政王他疯了 Round and Plump土肥圆Ancient Romance530k WordsCompleted For his sake, she gave everything she had to keep him safe. She became the Feng family’s disgrace. But once he had secured his position as prince, he called her a canary he kept in a cage. He even said the child in her belly was a bastard. He said she had caused the death of the one he cherished most. He would keep her alive for all eternity, tormenting her and making her live in hell. She obediently stayed alive. Xuan Yuan Heng drove her toward death step by step, torturing her little by little 643Reads5.2Score—14d adds
38. 188 王 My Lord, the Princess Consort Says She’ll Never See You Again 王爷，王妃说此生不复相见 Jing Mo旌墨Ancient Romance421k WordsCompleted [Historical Romance Tragedy + No Getting Back Together + Second Male Lead Takes the Lead] A tragic romance! A tragic romance! A tragic romance! Ye Chuyan loved Pei Xiuyan for twelve years, but never moved him in the slightest. All she got in return was Pei Xiuyan wiping out the Ye family and having her father and brothers tortured to death over three days in the snow. At last, she understood: for the rest of her life, there would be no love between her and Pei Xiuyan, only hatred, until one o 26.7kReads9.3Score1.7k14d adds
39. 189 假 If Only You'd Let Me Be Young Again 假如许我再少年 Forest Bath森之汤Modern Romance268k WordsCompleted Ye Qingchen’s despair: She didn’t dare tell him she loved him. Zhou Shi’s grief: He didn’t have time to tell her he loved her. The phrase “if only” describes the overwhelming regret one feels over something that has already happened, and the futile fantasy of trying to change it. [The first time they met, he was twenty-five and she was twenty. He didn’t trust her and missed his chance to save her from despair, sealing her fate. The second time they met, he was thirty and she was twenty-five. The 5.1kReads9.1Score36114d adds

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40. 190 攻 After Her Mission Failed, She Faked Her Death, and Mr. Mu Went Mad 攻略失败假死后，慕先生疯了 Lost In The Clouds And Mist云里雾里Modern Romance534k WordsCompleted After three years of pursuing him, his affection suddenly started plummeting. It was about to fall below the critical threshold, leaving An Ruzhi with only three months. She decided to let loose. If she couldn’t move a man even after giving it her all, then she’d stop trying, fake her death, and run away. Whatever happened after that was none of her concern. But her “death” was fake, while his madness was real. After she disappeared, the man who had always treated her as a replacement lost his m 427Reads5.3Score—14d adds
41. 191 傅 Mr. Fu, Stop Torturing Me. Miss Jian Is Dead 傅总别虐了，简小姐她死了 Mengmeng, That's Me是萌萌噻Modern Romance18k WordsCompleted Mr. Fu, stop torturing her. Miss Jian is dead. 46Reads—Score—14d adds
42. 192 我 After I Stepped Aside for His White Moonlight, Everyone Faced Their Day of Reckoning 我给白月光让位后，全员火葬场了 Gentle Breeze风款款Modern Romance504k WordsCompleted Five years into their marriage, Lu Zhihuai's first love returned. Jiang Chiyu knew there was no place for her in the Lu family anymore. So when he asked for a divorce, she left without hesitation, her heart breaking but her back straight. After leaving, Jiang Chiyu shut herself off from love and devoted herself to her career. Before long, she became a rising star in the world of jade carving! With admirers constantly appearing around her, the man who had once dumped her began to regret it and 61Reads—Score—14d adds
43. 193 渣 The Scumbag Can't Have Me, Quick Transmigration 渣男对我求而不得【快穿】 Shui Mu Qing水木青Ancient Romance315k WordsCompleted After a car accident leaves her in a vegetative state, Lin Ruo is forced to bind herself to the Scumbag System and begins a masochistic quest to cling to the scumbag’s coattails. First World The scumbag emperor destroys her family and leaves her to die in a sea of flames in order to seize military power. After she dies, the emperor undergoes a dramatic change in personality and spends more than a decade consumed by regret. Lin Ruo rolls her eyes in disdain. [Scumbag Experience: 10%] Second World 5.2kReads9.1Score50414d adds

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    You absolutely must have read it! The first one was so bad it made me cry buckets. It's a tragic ancient romance novel, so if you like that kind of thing, go for it!

44. 194 寒 Mr. Han, Your Wife Really Is Dead This Time 寒总，夫人这次真死了 Mu Yin沐茵Modern Romance778k WordsCompleted [Romance, CEO, heart-wrenching, reborn] One bowl of abortion medicine took her child from her, and one court judgment left her with little time to live. She said, “If you want a divorce, you have to spend one day with me.” He said, “After today, we have to get divorced.” He treated her as a blood bank for the woman he loved, all to protect his first love. Chi Yue once thought Han Siye was her guiding star, only to learn that his tenderness was meant to destroy her. A divorce agreement stating th 3.5kReads8.6Score28414d adds
45. 195 最 The Royal Family Is Truly Heartless 最是皇室无情人 Xia Xiaoli夏小礼Ancient Romance50k WordsCompleted For generations, the Mu family had loyally served the country. In the end, their entire clan was sentenced to execution. The official presiding over the execution was her husband, the most brilliant and extraordinary of the Great Jing Kingdom's Third Princes. Then she awoke to the truth: The man she loved was a member of the royal family, the most heartless people in the world... 621Reads7.0Score11914d adds
46. 196 傅 Master Fu, Stop Torturing Her. Miss Shen Has Died in Childbirth, Along with Her Twins 傅爷别虐了，沈小姐已一尸三命 December Twenty-Fifth十二月二十五Modern Romance130k WordsCompleted Shen Rouchu had been secretly in love with Fu Liunian for years, but he imprisoned her, humiliated her, terrorized her, threatened her, controlled her, and hurt her. On the day she was diagnosed with end-stage kidney failure, Fu Liunian secretly married the woman he had always loved. Desperate, she swallowed a bullet and took her own life, dying with three lives inside her. When she opened her eyes, she had been reborn fifteen years in the past. She wanted to stay away from Fu Liunian, but fate 223Reads5.4Score—14d adds
47. 197 她 After She Disappeared, Mr. Yu Completely Fell Apart 她消失后，御总彻底崩溃了 Miss Gesang格桑小姐Modern Romance160k WordsCompleted Su Mengyan suffers terribly from her illness, in so much pain that she can barely go on. She tries to end her life again and again, but Yu Jingyan never lets her have her way. All she can do is endure the agony eating away at her while watching Yu Jingyan change girlfriends one after another. When her condition worsens once more, Su Mengyan bears the excruciating pain and smiles triumphantly. “Yu Jingyan, you won’t find me this time.” …When news of her death spreads, Yu Jingyan searches for her 518Reads5.1Score—14d adds
48. 198 我EN After I Died, the Scumbag Went Mad 我死后，渣男疯了 July Chestnut七月栗子Modern Romance998k WordsCompleted I loved Fu Mingyu for ten years, but he made me lure a deranged serial killer out for the sake of his unattainable first love, determined to see me dead. In the end, I really did die at the killer's hands... But when he saw my corpse, he went mad. When I woke again, I had been reborn in the body of a strange woman, and the husband lying beside me looked exactly like the killer who had brutally murdered me... 6kReads8.8Score62914d adds

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49. 199 不 No Reconciliation, No Looking Back! Miss Gu Announces Her New Romance 不复合，不回头！顾小姐和别人官宣了 Jiu Nainai九奈奈Modern Romance443k WordsCompleted Gu Nian stayed by Huo Ze’s side for four years. In return, he put his arm around another woman and told her he wanted to give that woman a proper place in his life. Gu Nian’s heart died, and she turned and walked away without looking back. Everyone bet on how long she’d last this time. After all, the whole social circle knew Gu Nian was hopelessly in love with Huo Ze, a lovesick puppy he could summon or dismiss whenever he pleased. But day after day passed. When they met again, she appeared 136Reads5.2Score—14d adds
50. 200 再 Keep Torturing Me! One More Time and I'm Running Away! 再虐！再虐我就跑了！ Fallen Wood in March三月落木Modern Romance331k WordsCompleted [Win her back at any cost + reunion after years apart + sweet and angsty + happy ending] Jiang Chen had loved Xu Jingnian for more than a decade, but she had always known that he felt only familial affection and friendship for her, never love. She had asked him countless times, “Do you like me?” His answer was always, “Jiang Chen, stop dreaming.” “Jiang Chen, I’ll never love you in this lifetime.” Yeah, right. All talk. When their parting finally came, the man who had always been proud and aloof 1.9kReads8.4Score10314d adds

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