Angsty Short Stories That’ll Leave You Sobbing at Midnight 虐的，短文，半夜哭死的那种

1. 1101 妈 After Mom Hanged Herself With a Blood Vine, Dad Married His Mistress 妈用血藤上吊后，我爸娶了小三 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Marriage & Romance19k WordsCompleted After Mom Hanged Herself with a Bloodvine, Dad Married His Mistress 2Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 1102 傲 The Proud Rich Heiress’s Husband-Chasing Road to Ruin 傲娇富婆的追夫火葬场 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊12k WordsCompleted The Tsundere Heiress’s Long Road to Winning Him Back 763Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 1103 合 Contract Moonlight 合约月光 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊12k WordsCompleted Contract Moonlight 433Reads—Score—Shelves

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   On the eve of her wedding, Su Mian took off her ballet shoes in front of the mirror. Her toes were wrapped in bandages, and her joints were shockingly deformed. Her phone screen was lit up; her fiancé Lu Tingshen's last message, sent three hours earlier, read: "Don't be late for the wedding tomorrow. I don't like waiting." He didn't ask where she was, how her foot injury was, or even send a single extra emoji.

4. 1104 婚 The Night Before My Wedding, I Flew a Thousand Miles to Find the Man Who Hated Me 婚礼前夜，我飞千里去找那个恨我的男人 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊11k WordsCompleted On the Eve of My Wedding, I Flew a Thousand Miles to Find the Man Who Hated Me 3.5kReads—Score—Shelves
5. 1105 分 After We Broke Up, He Was a Million in Debt and I Made a Million a Year 分手后，他欠债百万，我年薪百万 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊9k WordsCompleted After the Breakup, He Owes a Million, and I Earn a Million a Year 5Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 1106 第 The Third Player 第三玩家 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Marriage & Romance17k WordsCompleted The Third Player 285Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 1107 别 Don’t Leave Her a Widow 别让她守寡 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Marriage & Romance10k WordsCompleted Don't Leave Her a Widow 5Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 1108 废 Wasteland Reboot: Paradise Restoration System! 废土重启：乐园修复系统！ A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀Sci-Fi & Apocalypse175k WordsCompleted Worldbuilding: In 2077, the Great Annihilation disaster erupted (nuclear war + a genetic virus leak), turning the surface into a wasteland. Cities collapsed into jungles of steel and concrete, radioactive dust blanketed the land, and mutated creatures (sand locust beasts, iron-shell rats) took over the ruins. Humanity retreated to underground shelters or formed armed settlements. Only fragments of the old world's civilization remained (rusted amusement park rides, faded fairy-tale murals, defunc —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The kind that makes you cry yourself to death in the middle of the night.

9. 1109 重 Reborn in Senior Year, the School Hunk Has My Back 重生高三，校草为我撑腰 A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀15k WordsCompleted Reborn in My Senior Year of High School, the School Heartthrob Has My Back 15Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 1110 药 Bitter Medicine, Deep Love 药苦情深 A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀Ancient Romance7k WordsCompleted Bitter Medicine, Deep Affection 34Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 1111 林 Lin Ayue and the Light 林阿月与光 A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀7k WordsCompleted Lin Ayue and the Light 6Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 1112 我 I Was Dead for Seven Days Before Anyone Found Me! 我死了七天才被发现！ A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀8k WordsCompleted I was dead for seven days before anyone found me! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 1113 季 Ji, I Miss You! 季，我想你了！ Yi DaX伊大X8k WordsCompleted Ji, I miss you! 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It was so heartbreaking! The male lead died for the female lead's dream of becoming a star. He aged rapidly, while she remained a student! He was her salvation, and she was also his salvation!!!

14. 1114 八 Little Farmer Girl of the Eighties: Going to School with My Pocket Dimension 八零小农女，带着空间去上学 A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀Modern Romance13k WordsCompleted A Little Farm Girl in the 1980s: Taking Her Space to School 1Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 1115 藏 The Sword Hidden Away: Mortal Melody 藏剑记凡音 The Heart-Stealing Young Marshal盗心少帅Male-Channel Fanfiction62k WordsCompleted The Sword Keeper: Fanyin 265Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Becoming a monster isn't scary; what's scary is becoming a monster and still remembering that you're human.

16. 1116 我 The Code I Wrote Wiped Out the Heavenly Tribulation 我写的代码把天劫干没了 A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀12k WordsCompleted My Code Wiped Out the Heavenly Tribulation 1Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 1117 熔 Refining the Firmament 熔炼苍穹 The Heart-Stealing Young Marshal盗心少帅48k WordsCompleted Forging the Firmament —Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 1118 闺 After My Best Friend Cheated, Her Brother Spoiled Me Rotten 闺蜜劈腿后，我被闺蜜哥哥宠上天 Seattle Weather西雅图的天气Modern Romance708k WordsCompleted 👇 This book has it all: melodrama, catharsis, and sweetness! Wen Yining had been dating her boyfriend for three years. They bought a home together and were preparing to marry. She saved her first time for their wedding night and treated her best friend like a younger sister for six years. Then she opened the door to their marital home and found her boyfriend tangled up with her best friend on the lavender bedsheets she'd laid out herself. She slapped them both and went out drinking. Through 651Reads—Score102Shelves

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    The second book ends with a tragic ending.

19. 1119 你 You Betrayed Me, So I’ll Bring You Down 你负我，我覆你 A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀Ancient Romance11k WordsCompleted You Betrayed Me, So I’ll Bring You Down 6Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 1120 退 After Our Engagement Was Called Off, the CEO Begged on His Knees for My Forgiveness 退婚后，总裁跪着求我原谅 Dreams Shattered Upon Meeting遇梦若碎Modern Romance460k WordsCompleted A year later, Qi Yao knelt in the rain and begged her to forgive him. She tossed her umbrella at his face and said, “You look so pathetic on your knees.” But Tang Yu remembered that in her previous life, she was the one kneeling in the rain. Before the car accident took her life, she heard Qi Yao sobbing in despair: “I was wrong... Please come back...” When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the day their engagement was called off. Qi Yao was still the same high-and-mighty fiance, abo 7Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 1121 万 I Use My Harem Protagonist Aura to Crush My Coworkers 万人迷光环，我用来卷死同事 A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀9k WordsCompleted I Use My Harem Protagonist Aura to Outwork My Coworkers 6Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 1122 绑 After Binding to the King of Hell's Sign-In System, I Gave Up Trying 绑定阎王签到系统后，我摆烂了 Dreams Shattered Upon Meeting遇梦若碎Urban637k WordsCompleted A laid-off office drone gets bound to the King of Hell System. In endless instance worlds, he becomes a god by signing in and slacking off, only to discover that everyone is waiting for him to return and serve as a judge of the dead. But all he wants is to give up and coast. Xuanhuan, system novel, infinite flow, underworld, lighthearted Slacking off, overworked employee, sign-in, subverting expectations, power fantasy, comedy, wild imagination, modern city, past and present lives, mystery One-l 59Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 1123 我 My Domineering CEO Experience Card Has Expired 我的霸总体验卡到期了 A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀15k WordsCompleted My Overbearing CEO Experience Pass Has Expired 2Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 1124 重 Reborn, I Dumped the Scumbag and Clung to My Officer Husband 重生后，我踹掉渣男抱紧军官老公 Seattle Weather西雅图的天气Modern Romance496k WordsCompleted Reborn to punish scoundrels and serve up some face-slapping, with a devoted military marriage and love after marriage. In her previous life, Situ Lanzhi trusted the scumbag He Ziwen, only to be killed by him and his mistress working together. To her dying day, she never knew that Yan Zhenshan, the military officer husband she had neglected all her life, was actually deeply in love with her. Reborn on her wedding night in 1978, she looks at the restrained, distant man before her and summons all 1Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 1125 我 I’m Monopolizing the Cultivation World by Selling “Harem Protagonist Auras” 我靠卖“万人迷光环”垄断修真界 A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀9k WordsCompleted I Monopolized the Cultivation World by Selling “Harem Protagonist Auras” 19Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 1126 相 After a Blind Date, the Egg White Girl Falls for the Egg Yolk CEO 相亲后，蛋白女孩爱上蛋黄总裁 Seattle Weather西雅图的天气Modern Romance546k WordsCompleted Blind Date + Mutual Devotion + She Pursues Him + She Pursues First, Then He Chases Her + Elite Families + Love at First Sight At a blind date her grandmother had forced her to attend, Qin Xi only planned to go through the motions. Then a hard-boiled egg in her salad made her lose her composure on the spot. She picked out the yolk and left it uneaten. The man across from her said calmly, “I like egg yolks. Give it to me. Don’t waste it.” Egg white and egg yolk: a perfect match. She fell for 178Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 1127 加 The Overtime Pay Was Hell Money, But I Signed Anyway 加班费是冥币，但我还是签了 A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀10k WordsCompleted The Overtime Pay Was Ghost Money, but I Signed Anyway 14Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 1128 三 A Three-Year-Old Prodigy Shows the Way: Mom’s Welding Machine Leads to Immortality 三岁萌宝指路：妈妈的电焊机通仙 Dreams Shattered Upon Meeting遇梦若碎Modern Romance600k WordsCompleted Three-year-old Gu Tiaotiao squatted on the threshold of a hardware store, pointing at an empty alley. “Mommy, there’s a leak in the alley.” She looked up. A crack split the wall, and a man covered in golden fissures stepped out of it. He said she was the unfinished crack from a thousand years ago. The eighty-yuan secondhand welding torch in her hand lit up. The man was called Lu Beiyin. When he took his first bite of noodles, he froze: for the first time in a thousand years, he could taste som 14Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 1129 我 Something Seems Off About My Sect 我的宗门，好像不太对劲 A Single Spirit Shines Alone一灵独耀18k WordsCompleted My Sect Seems a Little Off 15Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 1130 绑 Bound to a Gossip System, I Was Made a County Princess by the Emperor 绑定吃瓜系统后，我被皇帝封郡主 Seattle Weather西雅图的天气Ancient Romance495k WordsCompleted On Gu Yunshu's sixteenth birthday, she was bound to the “Gossip System.” At a palace banquet, the System suddenly delivered a shocking piece of gossip: the children born to the Noble Consort were actually fathered by the head of the Imperial Medical Academy! The words slipped out of her thoughts: “The emperor's been cuckolded!” The entire court heard her, and the emperor immediately ordered a blood test to confirm their parentage. The Noble Consort fell from power, the chancellor turned out 18Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 1131 他 He Sacrificed His Memories Again and Again, All to Save Me 他数次献祭记忆，竟都是为了救我 Xi Fengyue西枫月7k WordsCompleted He sacrificed his memories again and again, all to save me 11Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Short stories are coming to torture you!

32. 1132 我 The Book I Was Reading: The Male Lead Came to Life 我追的书，男主出来了 Dreams Shattered Upon Meeting遇梦若碎Modern Romance300k WordsCompleted The male lead of the book you've been following for three years has appeared. He's covered in blood, sitting on your living room sofa. He says, “I've come out of the book you've been following for three years.” Before you can react, your phone lights up. A line has been carved into the ground downstairs: “Shi Jin, you were following the wrong person.” Behind the window of the building opposite, a camera is pointed straight at you. A third text arrives at the same time: “He's lying to you. He 58Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 1133 救 Saving My Daughter Ten Thousand Times: I Turned the Gods into Evil Spirits 救女一万次：我把神明杀成了恶鬼 Xi Fengyue西枫月9k WordsCompleted Saving Her Ten Thousand Times: I Turned the Gods into Demons 7Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 1134 烧 She’s Waiting for Me Behind the Burnt Screen 烧焦的屏风后，她在等我 Dreams Shattered Upon Meeting遇梦若碎Mystery305k WordsCompleted Mystery, wild imagination, horror, theater stage, continuing the play, Wu dialects There may be a lot of Zhejiang Wu dialect in this story. If you have trouble understanding it, leave a comment and I can explain. Most of it is written in a semi-Wu style, so it’s easy to follow. But to make the local flavor feel more authentic, some of the older characters speak in full Wu dialect. My mother had been insane for six years. Last month, she suddenly came to her senses for ten minutes and said three 15Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 1135 死 Dead at 21:03: To Save Her, I Rebooted the World a Hundred Thousand Times 死在21:03：为了救她，我重启了世界十万次 Xi Fengyue西枫月8k WordsCompleted Died at 21:03: To Save Her, I Rebooted the World a Hundred Thousand Times 13Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 1136 在 I, in Short, Am Here for Laughs 在下，纯属搞笑 Seattle Weather西雅图的天气Modern Romance351k WordsCompleted Comedy, and we mean it. Secret crush, and he’s a brooding flirt. Both leads are pure, so dive in without fear of landmines. Qian Duoduo is an entertainment reporter who became famous for writing about “The Mystery of a Certain Top-Tier Star’s Underwear Color.” Her tongue is quicker than her keyboard. Zhou Zhiheng is a dermatologist who saves every word. His biggest secret is that he’s followed her from a burner account for three years, clicking “Like” on every article. They meet again at the h 112Reads—Score—Shelves
37. 1137 第 The 101st Time I Ordered General Huo to Die 第101次赐死霍将军 Xi Fengyue西枫月Ancient Romance10k WordsCompleted The 101st Execution of General Huo 6Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 1138 离 I Became a Millionaire Overnight After My Divorce 离婚后我一夜暴富 Dreams Shattered Upon Meeting遇梦若碎Modern Romance687k WordsCompleted My husband held up our property settlement agreement and said, “You’re not good enough for me anymore.” I calmly signed, then used all my savings to buy a lottery ticket. The next day, he clutched his new lover on TV and screamed, “Who stole my jackpot?!” I linked arms with his business rival and waved the lottery ticket at the camera: “Let me introduce you to my new husband.” 86Reads—Score—Shelves
39. 1139 重 Reborn: If I Had Never Met the Light 重生：如果不曾遇见光 Xi Fengyue西枫月11k WordsCompleted Reborn: If We Had Never Found the Light 5Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 1140 救 I Saved the Whole Village, Only to Become Their Plaything? My Dead Husband Returned and Slaughtered the Ungrateful 救全村却沦为玩物？亡夫归来杀光白眼狼 Xi Fengyue西枫月Ancient Romance5k WordsCompleted She saved the whole village, only to become their plaything? Her dead husband returns and slaughters every ungrateful traitor. 78Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 1141 白 The Night My White Moonlight Returned, I Became My Fiancé's Younger Brother's Fiancée 白月光归来那夜，我成了未婚夫弟弟的“未婚妻” The Tree That Wants to Fly要飞天的树10k WordsCompleted The night my first love returned, I became my fiancé's younger brother's “fiancée” 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I mustered all the courage of my thirty-six-year-old self to turn away, only to crumble before he flaunted his twin-pregnant wife. Until time rewound, and I resolutely boarded the bus going in the opposite direction from Yu Zixuan, I realized how breathtakingly beautiful the scenery I had missed along the way was. The first part is a good mix of angst and exhilaration.

42. 1142 爸 Dad, Dead People Don't Get Fussy 爸，死人是不会矫情的 Xi Fengyue西枫月6k WordsCompleted Dad, the Dead Don't Get All Sentimental 29Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 1143 高 That Kid Who Scored 700 on the College Entrance Exam Jumped Off a Building? 高考700分的那孩子，跳楼了？ Xi Fengyue西枫月6k WordsCompleted That Kid Who Scored 700 on the Gaokao, Jumped Off a Building? 18Reads—Score—Shelves
44. 1144 虐 Brutal!!! On My Wedding Day, My Ex Sent Me His Ashes 虐！！！结婚当天，前任寄来他的骨灰 Xi Fengyue西枫月5k WordsCompleted Angst!!! On their wedding day, her ex sent over his ashes. 31Reads—Score—Shelves
45. 1145 藏 The Hidden Terminal Illness Medical Record 藏起的绝症病历 Xi Fengyue西枫月8k WordsCompleted The Hidden Medical Record of a Terminal Illness 54Reads—Score—Shelves
46. 1146 我 I Hated Her for Nineteen Years [Two Female Leads] 我恨了她十九年[双女主] San Shui Yan三水言11k WordsCompleted I Hated Her for Nineteen Years [Dual Female Leads] 148Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Please take a look, please take a look, please take a look! [I'm about to cry][I'm about to cry][I'm about to cry][I'm about to cry][I'm about to cry]

47. 1147 婚 The Avenger at the Wedding: I Love You from Hell 婚礼上的复仇者：我在地狱爱你 Xi Fengyue西枫月8k WordsCompleted The Avenger at the Wedding: I Love You in Hell 56Reads—Score—Shelves
48. 1148 凤 My Phoenix Husband Bled My Family Dry. After the Divorce, He Begged on His Knees Outside My Office Tower 凤凰丈夫榨干我家产，离婚后他跪在写字楼楼下疯追 Yu Xuan, Master of Favors顺水人情的禹宣Marriage & Romance6k WordsCompleted My Phoenix Husband Drained My Family's Fortune. After the Divorce, He Chased Me Like a Madman, Kneeling Outside My Office Building 1Reads—Score—Shelves
49. 1149 刚 I Just Got Divorced and Diagnosed With Stomach Cancer, but My Ex-Husband Went Mad 刚离婚，我确诊胃癌，前夫却疯了 Xi Fengyue西枫月8k WordsCompleted I’d just gotten divorced when I was diagnosed with stomach cancer, and my ex-husband went insane. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 1150 离 My Divorce Papers Weren't Even Cold When I Inherited a Trillion-Dollar Fortune 离婚证还没凉，我继承了万亿家产 Yu Xuan, Master of Favors顺水人情的禹宣9k WordsCompleted The Divorce Papers Haven’t Even Cooled, and I’ve Inherited a Trillion-Dollar Fortune 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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