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  1. 151 Night Shanghai: Making My Name on the Bund 夜上海之扬威上海滩 Male-Channel Fanfiction237k WordsCompleted Lin Ge and Bai Wei transmigrate into the TV series Shanghai Bund, arriving in 1930s Shanghai. They clash fiercely with the Japanese and throw themselves into the nationwide resistance, helping launch the 1932 Battle of Shanghai. 116Reads—Score—Shelves
  2. 152 The Girl He Brought Home Walked into My Room 他带回的女生,走进了我房间 17k WordsCompleted The girl he brought home walked into my room 225Reads—Score—Shelves
  3. 153 After My Wife Cheated, I Made Her Regret It Like Crazy 妻子出轨后,我让她悔疯了 14k WordsCompleted After my wife cheated on me, I made her regret it with all her heart. 55Reads—Score—Shelves
  4. 154 Heroes Without Regrets in Shanghai by Night 夜上海之英雄无悔 Urban282k WordsCompleted Lin Ge is a pilot. While flying along the Hump Route, he unexpectedly transmigrates to Shanghai in 1936. He fights against Japan’s ambitions of aggression, reunites with the woman he loves, Bai Wei, and becomes entangled in complicated romantic relationships with the wealthy daughters of Shanghai’s elite. Lin Ge comes from 2036, but after transmigrating to the Shanghai of 1936, he encounters a host of time travelers lying low. The currents are rising, and the fate of the nation is shifting. 207Reads—Score—Shelves
  5. 155 My Wife's Secret 我妻子的秘密 13k WordsCompleted I discovered my wife's secret during one of her business trips out of town. That night, she suddenly called me. I thought she missed me. That is, until I put her on speaker... 1.6kReads—Score—Shelves
  6. 156 Hand in Hand, Together Until Our Hair Turns White 执子之手,相伴白头 Modern Romance358k WordsCompleted [A love rekindled, slow burn, one heroine, angsty at first and incredibly sweet later.] "If you want to skip the buildup, the major argument starts after Chapter 10. Chapters 10 to 20 are the best part." “Lin Fei, I don't love you. You always wanted to know why I wouldn't have a child with you, didn't you? This is why.” “Is there some misunderstanding between us? Can we sit down and talk calmly?” “Do you not understand plain language? A nobody like you isn't good enough for me. I said I don't lo 5.1kReads8.0Score182Shelves
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  7. 157 My Ex-Girlfriend Loved Me Too Much: After She Died, She Had Her Ashes Sent to My House 前女友太爱我,死后骨灰寄我家 Urban333k WordsCompleted New book out now: Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon, You Alone Are My Future [Male-Oriented Romance + Everyday Healing + Heartbreaking Tragedy + Wildly Imaginative Ashes + The Kind of Story You'd Find at a Corner Shop in the Clouds] This story is partly based on real life. Lu Yuan unexpectedly receives a package. It's from Jiang Lai, his ex-girlfriend, who he broke up with seven years ago. The package contains Jiang Lai's ashes! She has also left him an inheritance of five million, but claiming it w 239Reads8.8Score—Shelves
  8. 158 I Want So Badly to Love This World 好想爱这个世界 Urban182k WordsOngoing (The style of The Tenants + urban tragic romance + realism + multiple female love interests + ensemble cast + bad ending + open ending) Life and death to the left, parting to the right. Gu Bei met several girls in his life. One clutched a marble for eight years, then crouched by a barbecue stall and grinned at him. “I was afraid you’d be lonely.” One left him a book before the train pulled away and said, “If one day you don’t want to wait anymore, you can come find me.” One stayed by his sid 34Reads—Score—Shelves
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  9. 159 My Nanjing Years 我的南京往事 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Older Woman]+ [Rich Heiress]+ [Returnee CEO] What is love? Perhaps it is a past one cannot revisit, or perhaps it is the confusion of struggling and wavering only to end up with nothing. It is not here, and nowhere can it be found. 456Reads6.1Score—Shelves
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  10. 160 The Wife at Thirty 三十之妻 Urban2.1M WordsCompleted “Dad... Dad, a bad man is hitting Mom... Waaaah...” His three-year-old daughter called him, sobbing. “Don’t cry, sweetheart. Where are you?” Chen Fei was frantic with worry. “We’re at home. Dad, hurry and save Mom!” His daughter was crying her heart out. Just as Chen Fei was about to ask more, he heard screams coming through the phone... 317Reads8.0Score133Shelves
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  11. 161 My Girl from Zhaoqing 我的肇庆姑娘 Urban883k WordsOngoing [Childhood Sweethearts]+ [Older Sister]+ [Girlfriend Appears Out of Nowhere] Most people think Shanghai is an oppressive city because they walk along the Bund or down Nanjing West Road, crowded with foreigners, and see all the glittering bustle around them, yet feel they have no part in it. This is the story of a drifting man who escapes Shanghai and eventually finds his happy ending. 525Reads—Score—Shelves
  12. 162 My Girl in the White Dress 我的白裙姑娘 Urban595k WordsCompleted [Not reborn + no System + multiple female leads + first person + workplace + no harem + one at a time] What? My first love, an ex-girlfriend I haven't seen in four years, is forcing me to choose between her and my current girlfriend? Then I'll choose to make money first. Using the business resources my late father left behind, I'll climb to the top of the business world one step at a time. And if that doesn't work out, my lovely ladies in white dresses, I'll take you one by one. My heart is big 7Reads—Score—Shelves
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  13. 163 Lost in Marriage: The Stranger in My Bed 婚姻迷途,枕边的陌生人 Urban141k WordsOngoing It had started out as an ordinary day. After finishing his work at the office, he came home early. His wedding anniversary with his wife was just a few days away, and he planned to buy her some gifts and surprise her. Hehe... 158Reads5.8Score—Shelves
  14. 164 A Review of This Life 复盘今生 Urban223k WordsCompleted Wang Yuhan once had a happy family. He and his wife, Yu Meixia, were both teachers. They excelled at their jobs, had a son and a daughter, and were the envy of everyone. But then, one day, it all vanished. If you were the protagonist, how would you react? How would you face betrayal by the person you love and trust most? Drawing on a deep understanding of life, the author tells a moving, vivid story of love and loss, life and death, and tangled passions in plain, flowing prose. The story also ra 750Reads8.8Score101Shelves
  15. 165 My Bankrupt Boss 我的破产女上司 Urban248k WordsCompleted [Urban slice of life] [Subtle emotions] [Modern romance] [Workplace and marriage] [One heroine] She was once the beautiful owner of an advertising agency, but in a single day she hit rock bottom. He went from an unremarkable couch potato to her most steadfast support. Life taught them how to go from being in love to finding peace together. With a small bracelet, she revealed how much she cared and how insecure she felt. After weathering the storm, they heal each other and grow together, little 304Reads—Score101Shelves
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  16. 166 On the Eve of Our Engagement, She Went to KTV with Her White-Moonlight Love 订婚前夕她跟白月光去了KTV Urban1.6M WordsCompleted At the engagement ceremony. Ye Qingyu, drunk, took the microphone and openly confessed her feelings for the man she had always loved, right in front of all the guests. Everyone turned to look at Jiang Cheng, the groom-to-be. They all wanted to see him make a fool of himself. But Jiang Cheng started clapping. “Charging ahead for love takes courage. I respect it! You two should just make it official!!” … 12.8kReads6.7Score603Shelves
  17. 167 The Sky Is with You 天空与你同在 Modern Romance110k WordsCompleted Yu Ziyan had been in love with her husband Zou Mingyan’s older brother. But Zou Mingyan’s death opened her eyes to everyone’s true nature, and she finally realized that the person she should have loved was him, the man who had died. He had loved her wholeheartedly from beginning to end, loving her to the very core, and would even have died for her. She endured each day as though it were a year, until she chose to end her life. Heaven then gave her a chance to make things right and let him experi —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  18. 168 Love in Badminton Season 在羽毛球时节,恋爱 Modern Romance226k WordsCompleted (Just received a rating, so there aren’t many votes yet) [One-on-one sweet romance + ordinary working-stiff life and love + reunion after a long separation + mutual devotion + slow and steady love] [Half everyday romance, half working-stiff life] The theme of this story: Love is just as important as work. Even if you’re a working stiff, you should find a sense of purpose in yourself through all the trials and tribulations. Working stiffs deserve love too!! People say the secret to a good re 122Reads8.0Score—Shelves
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  19. 169 The Year of the Wolf and Tiger 狼虎之年 Urban186k WordsCompleted A panoramic survey of the raw emotional lives of people from different age groups and social classes in China today, vividly depicting the good and evil, beauty and ugliness of human nature amid the country’s rapid social transformation. It lays bare the conflicts and friction between people’s emotions and reality. 10.9kReads9.4Score1.2kShelves
  20. 170 Please Give Me One Last Cigarette Tonight 请给我今晚的最后一支烟 Urban487k WordsCompleted [Everyday life, down-to-earth, romance.] “I used to think my life would just stay this way. I figured I might as well give up and let everything fall apart. But after falling apart for long enough, I realized I really am a complete wreck.” “Actually, no one is a lost cause. And neither are you.” 1.4kReads8.8Score100Shelves
  21. 171 My Girlfriend Is All Natural 我的女友纯天然 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted By the stream, beneath a big tree, I stand at the peak of the mountain, pondering what love is. Is it the last cigarette, smoked down to the end? Or a flame that can never quite catch fire? I pray, yearn, and search in my heart for the most beautiful scene and the purest, most natural feeling. 46Reads5.8Score—Shelves
  22. 172 Secret Affairs of Urban Men and Women 都市男女秘密情事 43k WordsOngoing What should Bai Jie do when faced with a husband who has cheated on her, and how can she protect herself? A woman can live a wonderful life after divorce too: building a career and finding love are both still on the table. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  23. 173 Qi, Are You Really Giving Up on Pursuing Me? 祁同学,真的不继续追了吗 Modern Romance538k WordsCompleted An utterly unremarkable boy writes the girl he's secretly loved for three years into an essay for a mock exam, letting everyone know how much he favors her. But in real life, he's never had the courage to say a single word to her. He's too ordinary, while she's far too outstanding. Years later, at a blind date arranged by his friends, his heart recognizes her before he does. But when a sudden crisis hits his family, his insecurity and sensitivity make him avoid her at every turn. Yet she's like 4.4kReads8.9Score528Shelves
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  24. 174 After Winning a Hundred Million, I Became My Company's Savior 中奖一个亿后,我成了公司救世主 Urban424k WordsCompleted [The rating just came out, but it'll slowly improve! No risk in getting on board!] Shen Yanshen casually bought two lottery tickets and won a hundred million. His miserable working life was over for good, and from then on he lived in a mansion and drove a Mercedes. His ex-girlfriend, who had once looked down on him for being poor, came back in tears, begging him to take her back. Shen Yanshen kicked her a hundred meters away. “Get as far away as you can. Can't you see I'm washing my wife's feet? 3kReads5.9Score113Shelves
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  25. 175 Reborn, My Goddess Counselor Wants to Have My Baby 重生后,女神辅导员要给我生孩子 Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Chen Jianghe leaped from the 89th floor and, against all odds, was reborn. It was 2006. The stock market was booming, the property market was thriving, the economy was hot, and opportunities were everywhere. That year, Chen Jianghe had just started his freshman year of college. “Chen Jianghe, your courage in confessing your feelings last night was admirable. But you’ve only just started college, and it’s too soon to be dating. I hope you’ll focus your energy on your studies. Once you enter the 35.4kReads9.3Score2.8kShelves
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  26. 176 After Taking a Pay Cut and Quietly Giving Up, My Boss Begged Me for Forgiveness All Night 降薪摆烂后,老板连夜跪求我原谅 10k WordsCompleted After My Pay Was Cut, I Started Slacking Off. My Boss Begged Me on His Knees to Forgive Him That Very Night —Reads—Score1.1kShelves
  27. 177 A Poor Kid's Rise to Billionaire at Thirty-Five 穷小子逆袭三十五岁成亿万富豪 Urban405k WordsOngoing (Slow-burn setup in the early chapters; urban life, emotions, sweet and heartwarming everyday moments + one female lead + 1v1 + mutual devotion + office life + romance + childhood friends and first love) This book mainly follows the many ups and downs in Zhu Zilong's life, and the warmth and harshness of the world around him. After succeeding as an entrepreneur and changing his fate, he grows more mature and dependable. Yet even after achieving success in his career, he remains single. He can't 17Reads—Score—Shelves
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  28. 178 During My Confinement, I Kicked My Mother-in-Law Out 月子里,我赶跑了婆婆 8k WordsCompleted I Kicked My Mother-in-Law Out During My Postpartum Month 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
  29. 179 The Real Face of My Wife 妻子的真面 Urban437k WordsCompleted My wife comes home late, bearing bite marks from a man. Is she having an affair, or is there something else going on? To save my marriage, I pursue the truth step by step, only to get caught up in a shocking major case... 3.8kReads6.4Score198Shelves
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  30. 180 My Stubborn Mother-in-Law Went to Her Grave 不听劝的婆婆归西了 13k WordsCompleted My Stubborn Mother-in-Law Went to Meet Her Maker 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
  31. 181 Drinking Addiction, Like a Carp 饮瘾如鲤 Modern Romance130k WordsOngoing 33Reads—Score—Shelves
  32. 182 My Crazy Girlfriend 我的神经病女友 Urban253k WordsOngoing [Super Sweet Romance] + [Novelist] + [Psycho] + [Multiple Heroines] (Early Story) [Pervert] + [Hunting Criminals and Solving Cases] (Later Story) The story of a down-and-out novelist and a mentally ill woman: a daughter's tears are worth 8,000 yuan, while a son's tears aren't worth a cent. I just picked up your phone to check your name, and you called it an invasion of your privacy and demanded 8,000 yuan in compensation. Talk about the farmer and the snake! I should've crushed you back then! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  33. 183 Kindling and Wildfire 湿柴烈火 Modern Romance72k WordsCompleted When Liang Shiyun and Chu Xia first became a couple, they were like kindling meeting a flame. Once they tried forbidden love, they couldn’t stop. After graduation, they each chose a different path. They grew distant, broke up, and then ran into each other again years later at a class reunion. Liang Shiyun thought the passing years had long since soaked through the kindling of their old romance. She never expected that even damp wood could catch fire again. 43.3kReads9.1Score1.6kShelves
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  34. 184 If the Surgery Fails, Will You Forget Me? 如果手术失败,你会不会忘了我 Urban136k WordsOngoing Youthful campus romance, one female lead, sweet at first and tragic later, transmigrate. A story between a heart failure patient and a volunteer donor. This was absolutely not written by AI! Absolutely! Absolutely not!!! All characters in the story are adults. Everything below is just a preview. The main story hasn't gotten to these parts yet! My nickname is Tangtang. The tang in cotton candy. What about you? I, um, my surname is Lin. Xingyu, like stars scattered by the rain! Feeling down? —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  35. 185 A Tangled Love: My Complicated Relationships with Three Bad Men 错恋:我和三个坏男人的纠缠 Modern Romance190k WordsCompleted [Teacher-Student Romance | Sweet and Angsty | Entangled After Marriage | The Husband’s Long Road to Redemption | The Second Male Lead Takes Her Heart | Bittersweet Ending, Then Happy Ending] This is a story of tangled relationships, and one whose characters don’t always make the best choices. She loves him, and he still loves her. But that other woman got together with him because she loved his brother, and his brother fell in love with the woman he loved. Yet in her eyes, there was only him, 616Reads—Score—Shelves
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  36. 186 The Gray Lotus 灰莲花 Modern Romance819k WordsCompleted [A textbook case of realist business warfare + a deeply romantic, top-tier intellectual romance] The world has gone mad. A top-tier rich, handsome young heir is forced to compete with his wealthy wife for a lover... “If she likes me and I like her too, then we’ll each have to prove ourselves.” The male lead is loaded with resources and comes with every advantage, while the female lead has brains and beauty and rises from humble beginnings. A textbook case of realist business warfare, arranged fa 36.4kReads9.4Score4.3kShelves
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  37. 187 Only After I Died Did My Wife Begin to Regret It 我死后,妻子才开始后悔 Urban249k WordsCompleted [Angst + Tragic Literary Fiction + Rebirth + Redemption by Those Around Him + Slice of Life] Absolutely worth reading. You won’t regret diving in! We met when we were eighteen, got married at twenty-two, and when she was twenty-five, her childhood sweetheart returned to the country. I asked for a divorce. Someone asked if I was okay with it. I thought for a moment and said, “She never loved me in the first place. What is there to be okay or not okay with? In this story called redemption, I was a 121Reads5.4Score—Shelves
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  38. 188 I Fell in Love with a Long-Legged Older Man 我爱上了大长腿叔叔 Modern Romance182k WordsCompleted Today is my graduation ceremony, and I’m incredibly excited. I haven’t seen my tall uncle in ages. He’s the big brother who’s been supporting me, only twelve years older than I am. He won’t let me call him that, but to me, he’s my big brother. He promised he’d come to my graduation ceremony today! After I graduate, he’ll take me to his company… But the ceremony ended, and the figure I’d been longing to see never showed up. As soon as I could, I nervously called him. But the person who answered w 1.4kReads6.1Score—Shelves
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  39. 189 Beware the Mediocre 庸人小心 Urban370k WordsCompleted Realistic fiction · Unrequited love with a bad ending · Small-town life · Ordinary people · Coming-of-age · No golden finger Based on the true experiences of friends, this story is told from a male first-person perspective and follows Jiang Xin through the ups and downs of his youth in a small southern county town from 2005 to 2014. He was once an elementary-school prodigy admired by everyone. But from the moment he started middle school, his life quietly began to veer off course. As a boy, he 201Reads—Score107Shelves
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  40. 190 After Ten Years of Marriage, I Refuse to Be Invisible at Home Anymore 结婚十年,我不再做家里的透明人 Marriage & Romance7k WordsCompleted After Ten Years of Marriage, I Refuse to Be Invisible at Home Anymore 542Reads—Score—Shelves
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  41. 191 Those Years I Was the Big Brother 我当的哥那些年 Urban1.5M WordsCompleted Yang Rui, a struggling online novelist, applied to become a Didi rideshare driver so he could make ends meet and stop sponging off his parents. He thought it would just be a way to earn some extra money, but he never imagined that over the years he spent behind the wheel, he'd enjoy one stroke of good luck after another and meet benefactors who would help him rise... 210Reads9.3Score—Shelves
  42. 192 On Singles' Day, My Boyfriend Secretly Bought His Ex Tons of Stuff 双十一男友瞒着我给前任买买买 6k WordsCompleted My Boyfriend Secretly Went on a Spending Spree for His Ex on Singles' Day —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  43. 193 You Are the Light That Shines in My Darkness! 你是我黑暗里的那一束光! Modern Romance206k WordsCompleted Gu Jingyan had just returned from studying abroad and was about to take over the Gu family business when a car accident left him gravely injured. He lost most of his memories, went blind, and had his right leg amputated above the knee. By chance, he met the heroine, Su Wanning, who saved him. Only later did Su Wanning discover that the reclusive musician Kong Niansheng, whom she had always admired, was actually the little blind man in her arms... 680Reads8.2Score—Shelves
  44. 194 Forbidden Love, Buried Before My Daughter's Wedding 禁忌之恋,葬在女儿婚礼前 Marriage & Romance12k WordsCompleted Forbidden Love, Buried Before My Daughter's Wedding 503Reads—Score—Shelves
  45. 195 My CEO Husband Is a Disabled Crybaby 我的总裁先生是个残疾的爱哭包 Modern Romance559k WordsCompleted After graduating from college, Su Ruanruan lands a job at Musen, a company under the Qiao Group that she has long dreamed of joining. When she moves into the company's apartment building, she meets her neighbor Qiao Yichen, who has lost both arms. Overflowing with compassion, she sets out on a mission of kindness and draws the depressed, withdrawn Qiao Yichen out of his own little world… 1.2kReads6.8Score102Shelves
  46. 196 The Ordeal Written in Fate 命数里的劫 Urban240k WordsCompleted Our fates began when I saw you in the crowd; they ended when I saw you in the crowd. You were like a ray of dawn, lighting up my life. But fate played a cruel joke on us. You were the reason I succeeded, and the reason I failed! —Reads—Score—Shelves
  47. 197 Those Loves of Our Youth 年轻时的那些情 Marriage & Romance12k WordsCompleted Those Feelings from Our Youth 365Reads—Score—Shelves
  48. 198 After My Husband Died, I Became Their Prey 老公死后,我成了他们的猎物目标 15k WordsCompleted After My Husband Died, I Became Their Prey 182Reads—Score—Shelves
  49. 199 The Temptress 尤物 Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted The print edition of The Enchantress will be released on March 25 at 8 p.m. (A devoted one-on-one romance, with both leads each other’s first and only.) Zhou Yi is notorious in their circle for being a shameless playboy. Everyone thinks he cares about pleasure, not feelings. That is, until a video leaks one day. In it, Zhou Yi looks like a devout believer, clasping a woman’s slender wrist in his hand. His eyes are filled with fervor and tenderness as he murmurs in a low, hoarse voice, “Jiang Yin 4kReads9.5Score872Shelves
  50. 200 Better Never to Have Met in This Life 此生不如不见 Urban1.6M WordsCompleted This is a novel about love and hate intertwined. There is no transmigration, cultivation, or System, just ordinary human nature in the real world. Through a twist of fate, the protagonist, Wang Zhicheng, meets his fiancée's identical twin sister, and a love that no one will accept begins to unfold. The many hardships of the real world push the two people who love each other toward the abyss, costing them their lives. When you look back on your youth, this novel may make you feel like you've been 1.1kReads6.7Score107Shelves
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