Any Especially Heartbreaking Bad-Ending Novels with Good Writing? 有没有那种特别虐的be小说，文笔尽量好点的那种
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Hidden in Midsummer 藏于盛夏
A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t
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Quick Transmigration: After Faking My Death Due to a Terminal Illness, the Yandere Tycoon Went Mad 快穿：我靠绝症死遁后病娇大佬他疯了
[Yandere x obsessive, angst + catharsis, two power players putting on a show] [System: Host Yu Tang, a world’s main god is incredibly powerful and impossible to overthrow!] The tycoon who controlled the lifeblood of the economy: “Heh, you think you can escape my grasp?” Yu Tang: “Oh, really? I have late-stage stomach cancer, so I’ll die before you do.” The Federation’s celebrated war hero: “You’re nothing but my plaything. Be good and stay by my side!” Yu Tang: “But I have a serious heart con
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This Host Is Something Else: Told to Die for the Villain, He Actually Did 这宿主绝了，让他替反派死他真死
(Complete) Villain + Corruption + Master and Disciple + Mutual Devotion + One-on-One (the villains are all souls of the Main God) To come back to life, movie star Yu Tang binds himself to a quick transmigration System. His mission is to show the villains care and warmth, then die for them, driving them completely over the edge. But when he has finally earned enough points and wants to be revived, the System tells him: The worlds he visited have all collapsed. Yu Tang: ??? System: So you need to
31.9kReads9.6Score3.6kShelves
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I Die Young in Every World 每个世界我都英年早逝
Mo Yinglan happened to read an old-school, melodramatic tragic romance novel and watched helplessly as the various male leads who ticked all his boxes were brutally tormented from start to finish. Most infuriating of all, it ended with a brainless happy ending for everyone. “...” “What kind of century-old joke is this?” “Is this guy right in the head? No, wait, he doesn't have a brain at all!” “If it were me, I'd absolutely die the moment that scumbag surnamed Jiang ‘came to his senses.’ If I co
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A Breeze Blows By 有风吹过来
The wind began to blow. He said to her, “Yan Li, before I leave, I want to help you like this world just a little. At the very least, I don’t want you to feel so hopeless anymore.” When two equally lonely people, both empty inside, find each other, even the smallest change can be a form of salvation.
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A Love That Cuts to the Bone 蚀骨危情
Xia Weiming died, and Shen Xiujin personally sent Jian Tong to a women’s prison. During her three years behind bars, Shen Xiujin’s order to “take good care of her” changed Jian Tong beyond recognition. She was even “persuaded to donate a kidney” while in prison. Before she went in, Jian Tong said, “I didn’t kill her.” Shen Xiujin remained unmoved. After her release, Jian Tong said, “I killed Xia Weiming. I’m guilty.” Shen Xiujin’s face turned livid. “Shut up! Don’t let me hear you say that again
100.2kReads9.2Score6.8kShelves
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I Told You I Love You in Heaven 我在天堂说爱你
At fifteen, Junxi accidentally got blood from an AIDS patient into one of his wounds and contracted the disease. From then on, his normal life was completely upended, and he lived in constant fear that he could die at any moment. But Li Poxiao never left his side, giving him the courage to carry on. Through his pain, he smiled through his tears. “Brother Junxi, my greatest wish is to become your bride. You have to fight to stay alive, because… this is a dream only you can help me fulfill.” A lov
900Reads9.5Score177Shelves
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I'll Spend the Rest of My Life Waiting for You 余生只待你
In high school, Bai Zhi and Lin Yu became classmates. Back then, Bai Zhi was rebellious and willful, a troublesome student who gave her teachers headaches. After an encounter in a downpour, Lin Yu saw through her pain, and the two became close friends. They were accepted into the same university and promised to start there together. Before they could enroll, Lin Yu learned that Bai Zhi was the daughter of the mastermind behind a kidnapping case that had once shocked the entire city. He had been
2.4kReads9.6Score325Shelves
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He Lives in the Moonlight 他住在月光里
A moving story about a young woman with depression who gradually finds the courage to confront it and fight back.
235Reads9.4Score—Shelves
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Born with a Bewitching Charm 媚骨生香
Lan Xiaodie: “What? I'm the female supporting character?” Someone: “And in a steamy novel, no less.” Lan Xiaodie: “What? I'm about to die?” Someone: “And the heroine will step on your ashes to rise to the top.” Lan Xiaodie: “That's brutal! Then make sure my son and daughter avenge me.” Someone: “Sorry, you won't even have a man when you die.” Lan Xiaodie was sure she'd die with regrets. So she decided to rise up and become the heroine... And if she couldn't, she'd at least be the female supporti
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Fourteen Sentences 十四句
[The print edition of Fourteen Lines, bearing the same title, is now available on multiple platforms.] Life is like duckweed on the water, so why doubt that people will meet and part? Morality and ethics clash with matters of the heart. A realistic story. If that’s not your thing, don’t read. The greatest regret isn’t that people enter your life at different times, but that you’re meant to meet without being meant to be together. A remorseful husband tries to win back his wife. Written as realis
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Moonlight No Longer Shines on Dreams of the Past 月光不照昔时梦
[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
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
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A Star in the Wilderness 旷野里的星
An Yi had an older sister, brilliant and dazzling, like the bright moon in the sky, while An Yi was weak and insignificant, like a star no one noticed. The greatest pleasure in An Yi’s life was stealing everything her sister owned, including the man she loved most: Shen Yun.
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He Is in the South of the Clouds 他在云之南
When they first met, he was shrouded in shadow, reeking of blood and violence. He asked her, “Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing here?” It was a long time before she thought of the true answer: “I'm Shen Xun. I came from the far north to the south of the clouds, to meet the love of my life.” He was her Morpheus, giving her a poppy-like dream of love, bewitching and intoxicating. He captured her soul, clouded her mind, and made her addicted. Like a pawn crossing a river, she went
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Early Morning, I Deliberately Forgot You 初晨，是我故意忘记你（孙怡、白敬亭主演《与晨同光》原著）
The original novel behind the TV series With the Dawn, starring Sun Yi and Bai Jingting! Li Luoshu grew up unloved and was drawn to the warmth and kindness of Chuyao, the eldest daughter of the Li family. When Chuyao's younger brother, Chuchen, died unexpectedly, Li Luoshu moved in with the family as her nominal younger brother to comfort her. Many years later, just as he finally realized that he had loved her deeply for a long time, he had already lost the right to love her...
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Come See the Sea with Me Tomorrow 明天陪我去看海
She filled a faraway fantasy into an insubstantial relationship, while he mixed a love close at hand with cold, tangible benefits. Fate finally sent them in opposite directions. “If I could turn back time, I wouldn’t mind traveling ten thousand miles. I’d come see you.” The storm raging out at sea lasted a full forty-one chapters. Fine raindrops beat against the surging waves. Bloodstained white tiles, reeking of earth, pierced his mind like thorns. He remembered. Xiao Yan had left with the shar
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Love Has No Return 爱无归期
When Yun Sheng married Li Xijue, she was determined to keep trying until she hit a brick wall. She couldn't believe he could simply forget her completely. Later, the wall crumbled, and her heart died. The three-year marriage she had staked everything on fell apart. When she woke from her dream, her family was ruined and she had lost spectacularly. Only then did she finally understand: the man who never once looked her way, even when she was terminally ill, had always wanted to send her to her de
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Loving You Is a Fool’s Dream 爱你是人间妄想
Mu Guicheng hated Shen Qing. At the height of his hatred, he wanted to cut her into a thousand pieces and reduce her bones to ashes. But later, when she turned to ash before his eyes, he would rather have his soul annihilated and suffer eternal ruin if only he could keep a wisp of hers… Shen Qing loved Mu Guicheng. She always thought he was her light, her faith, until the day she died and understood that, to her, he had always been nothing but hell. The man who gave her a ray of light in the end
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How to Turn Around My Tragic, Beautiful, and Powerful Image on the Detective Conan Forum 如何扭转在柯南论坛的美强惨人设
[Madman-and-dog-taming fiction ① + lots of foreshadowing + villains through and through] [Content warnings: dark themes + ambiguous relationships + all characters are bottoms + no CP + breaking up canon couples] After fifty years, the Detective Conan manga finally came to an end. Fans lamented the end of their youth, and just as they were weeping uncontrollably, the author began serializing a hidden edition of the manga. Unlike the story that had already concluded, this hidden edition revealed m
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