Any Ancient-Style Novels With So Much Angst You'll Be in Tears? 有没有古风很虐，虐到鼻子一把泪一把的小说
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My Lord, the Princess Consort Says She’ll Never See You Again 王爷，王妃说此生不复相见
[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
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When the Pear Blossoms Fall, Longing Turns to Ash 梨花落，相思烬
A misunderstanding in their youth made Bai Jinhan hate Chu Lihua to the core. When he returns, he forcefully keeps her by his side, all so he can get even. What he doesn’t know is that she has already given everything for their love... Later, when every pear blossom has fallen and longing turns to sorrow, Chu Lihua slips away without a sound, while Bai Jinhan goes mad in a way that shakes the world...
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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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The Cold King's Stolen Consort: His Side Consort Is No One's Plaything 冷王盗妃，侧妃不承欢
They were betrothed for eight years, and she waited in vain for four. When he finally came, he was holding another peerlessly beautiful woman in his arms. In a single night, she went from principal consort to secondary consort. Deep within the marquis's estate, she endured the loneliness in silence. She neither fought for his favor nor accepted his affection. She had thought that if she helped him and stood by him through every hardship, they would soar together as a pair, and in the end she wou
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The Prince's Madcap Bookish Attendant, Disguised as a Man 女扮男装疯批太子小侍读
[Rebirth + possessiveness + yandere + woman disguised as a man + regret and redemption + sweet and heartbreaking romance + both leads' first love. An obsessive, controlling male lead vs. a freedom-loving heroine who isn't a saint] Su Cenan died in the fourth year of her imprisonment in the imperial palace. She never expected to open her eyes again and find herself reborn in the days when she had entered the palace disguised as a man to serve as the Crown Prince's attendant. The Crown Prince, J
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Princess, Stop Tormenting Him! Your Consort Has Cut Out His Heart’s Blood 长公主别虐啦，驸马已剜了心头血
Ye Xun thought Jiang Ning loved him deeply. She smiled brightly as she praised his handsome features. Only later did he realize that she had always been looking through his eyes at someone else.
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After the Empress Consort Divorced Him, the Fox-Demon Ex-Husband Rose to Power Through Their Child 女帝君休夫后，狐妖前夫父凭子贵
[One-on-one romance, sweet and angsty, a cool and handsome female empress versus a cold and aloof celestial fox demon, the male lead chases his wife with a child in tow and suffers for it, strong female lead, the male lead gets put through some angst, female master and male disciple] Baili Muxue, the foremost of the five sovereigns of the Ninth Heaven, is publicly divorced by Hua Jiuli on the grounds of the “Seven Grounds for Divorce.” The female sovereign Hua Jiuli pursued Baili Muxue for ten t
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The Innocent Abandoned Consort: Prince, Please Let Me Go 弃妃无罪：王爷请你放过我
[Prince + imperial power + tragic romance] At first, he grabs her by the throat, his expression sinister and alluring. “How much truth is there in those tears of yours? Cheng Luoxun, I’ll make you pay in blood.” In the end, she fulfills his wish, barely conscious and almost lifeless. When the peach blossoms bloom in the third month, he gently takes her hand. “You said I didn’t love you, but you never once asked me if I did.” The candles flicker dimly in the room. He looks up, and there is nothin
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Stop Tormenting Me, Your Majesty: Your Deposed Empress Is Your Precious Darling 皇上别虐了，废后是你的心肝宝
[Both leads are faithful to each other] She traveled a thousand miles to marry him. She gave him everything and helped him seize the throne. But once he wore the imperial robes, all she received was an edict deposing her as empress. When he viciously told her she wasn’t even worthy of dying, she saw in his icy eyes nothing but the deepest disgust and hatred. She finally understood: he had never loved her. With war raging everywhere, the army of Beichen breached the walls of Southern Shu. Dressed
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The Royal Family Is Truly Heartless 最是皇室无情人
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...
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Survival Cultivation Handbook: Senior Brother, Come Save Me! 生存修炼手册：师兄，来救我！
She is the embodiment of a divine tree's fruit. The moment she is born, she becomes a hostage, sent far from home to Baiyue. With no exceptional talent or divine weapon, she can only await the arrival of fate, trapped in these chains. Senior Sister: "I don't believe in fate. The one I want to save is you." Senior Brother: "You're my junior sister, of course I'll treat you well." Junior Brother: "You're my senior sister. Who'll take care of me if you're not around?" (I drew the cover myself. I'm
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The Eastern Palace’s Caged Sparrow: Changning’s Mistake 东宫囚雀：长宁误
[Love and hate entwined | Discipline | Revenge | Political scheming] I am the fallen dynasty's princess, the most docile canary in the Eastern Palace. The Crown Prince killed my father, destroyed my homeland, and used rules to cage me into the most obedient plaything in his palm. He told me to learn political strategy, so I did. He told me to smile, so I smiled. After lying low for five years, I finally got the chance I'd been waiting for: the day he was trapped in a desperate situation. I broug
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Layers of Resentment in the Deep Palace 深宫怨几重
In this mortal world, in the imperial palace, in the mansions of the wealthy, how much love has gone unreturned and turned into bone-deep hatred? The tangled passions and heartbreak of so many men and women have all vanished into the mists of history.
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Thank You for Giving Me a Heart of Sorrow 谢你赠我一心伤
The most ridiculous thing in An Lingxi’s life was probably that she loved Xuanyuan Mo more than life itself, while Xuanyuan Mo thought of nothing but taking her life…
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Your Highness, the Crown Princess Doesn't Deserve to Die 殿下，太子妃罪不至死
[Make the scumbag suffer + never look back] The Crown Prince's first love dies, and his Crown Princess is accused of murder. He personally shoves her into the depths of despair, where she endures humiliation and torment. Three years later, the truth is bitterly ironic: his first love never died. Not only has she become the old emperor's favorite concubine, she's even given the scumbag Crown Prince a younger brother? The Crown Prince has been cuckolded, and now he regrets everything! Holding the
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After Breaking Off the Engagement, the Foolish Princess Marries the Ninth Lord with Her Four Maids 退婚后，傻妃携四大丫鬟嫁九千岁
[Palace Intrigue + Household Intrigue + Historical Romance + Princess Consort + Legitimate Daughter + Medical Skills + Two Powerful Leads + Cunning + Playing the Fool + Reborn + Fiercely Protective + Political Scheming] 99% of the comments are positive! Read with confidence! Su Qian, once the leader of a special forces unit in the apocalypse, died unexpectedly while carrying out a mission. With her portable medical space, she transmigrated to ancient times and into the residence of a great gener
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A Love So Deep 痴痴情深
The naive Su Cheng had a heart as pure as snow, and thought only of the prince. But the prince felt nothing for him. Again and again, he called him by the wrong name, let go of his hand, and wounded his devoted heart. Did the prince know that even a naive boy could understand love, and that even he could be heartbroken?
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A Shattered Longing 相思碎
One meeting, and they were fated to be entangled for life. Jiang Lingyu never imagined that the person he loved most would destroy everything he treasured with his own hands. “If you ever betray me, I'll make you wish you were dead!” His dignity, his body, and his shattered heart were trampled underfoot and ground into dust. He had obeyed, begged for mercy, and fought back... but in the end, he could only surrender to fate. Who can truly see through love and hate entwined? When all was settled a
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The Courtesan Consort: The Prince's Precious Snow 勾栏罪妃，她是王爷掌中雪
❗️❗️ [The Long Road to Winning Her Back] In this life, the one thing he never did was tell her, “I love you.” She was snow in the palm of his hand: the moment he had her, he lost her. 🔥 [The Memory-Devouring Twin Gu: One Swallows the Past, the Other Buries the Rest of Your Life] It all began with a conspiracy! He was the emperor’s younger brother, the only prince of the direct imperial line. He was deeply in love with the current empress, his sister-in-law. Overnight, she became the daughter of
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After Driving His Wife to Her Death, the Overbearing CEO Went Mad 虐死夫人后，霸总他疯了
A new novel by the author of Reborn, I Became the Little Fairy of a Possessive Big Shot. It’s a sweet romance, so please show it lots of support. Xia Sang is a stutterer everyone looks down on. In her five years of marriage to Huo Shengjing, she has only ever done one thing: loved him. She would live and die for him, and even suffered disfigurement while saving him. But Huo Shengjing hates her. He has one of her fingers cut off, ruins her voice with acid, tricks her into having an abortion, and
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Bo Yu, I Don't Dare Love You Anymore 薄欲，我不敢再爱你了
Su Qingwu had been married to Bo Yu for five years, and he had trampled her sincere love until it was shattered to pieces. She thought he really was as cold as the rumors said, even in bed, utterly devoid of emotion. But after Bai Xiaoxiao returned, Su Qingwu realized that Bo Yu hadn’t been born cold and indifferent. He knew better than anyone how to treat someone with tenderness and affection. Su Qingwu was left battered and broken, eventually losing all feeling. When she returned in full fin
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Spring Banquet 春日宴
She kept male favorites and toyed with powerful ministers! For eight years, the arrogant and tyrannical Princess Danyang, Li Huaiyu, wreaked havoc across the court and country. She died on the day the new emperor ascended the throne, bleeding from every orifice in a truly gruesome death. The officials celebrated and the people rejoiced: Evil gets what it deserves! Good riddance! Yet on the seventh day after her death, Princess Danyang returned to life in the body of the Bai family’s Fourth Mis
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What on Earth Is This? Complete in Two Volumes (The Original Novel Behind the Hit Drama Starring Wang Churan and Cheng Lei) 成何体统：全二册（王楚然、丞磊主演热播影视剧原著）
What is it like to transmigrate into a web novel and become the tyrant's bedmate? After a few simple calculations, Yu Wanyin reached a conclusion: she would have to find another way. In this story full of villains, if she wanted to carve out a path to survival, she had to become the biggest villain of all. First, help the tyrant take down Prince Duan, then take down the tyrant and become empress herself. But when she met the tyrant and carefully considered the strange sense of familiarity in his
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Even Love and Longing Betrayed Me 风月也曾负相思
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
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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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A Ten-Mile Bridal Procession, A Love That Never Fails 十里红妆终不负
At her first wedding, ten miles of red bridal finery were followed by a night of misery. Her husband and his lover both died horribly, and she seemed to bring death not only to husbands but also to their lovers. For her second wedding, she swapped places with the bride so as not to ruin another innocent man's life, only to run into him again. She begged for mercy: “I'm sorry about what happened that night...” The man smiled, his charm irresistible. “If an apology were enough, would I have gone t
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Reborn as the Wronged Princess: My Lord, I Won't Marry You 逆妃重生：王爷我不嫁
Prince Qingluan is said to be the most handsome and noble man in the world. She did everything in her power to marry him. Her painstaking devotion earned her nothing but his life with her half-sister. Her half-sister was breathtakingly beautiful and ruthless, step by step ruining her reputation until she became a despised outcast, hated by everyone. After a year in the prince’s household, Prince Qingluan heartlessly cast her aside because of her wicked reputation. Her love had been wasted, an
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Matriarchal Republic of China: The Violent Tycoon's Little Nightingale 女尊民国：暴戾财阀的小夜莺
Toxic melodrama, female pursuer, angst, one-on-one and mutually faithful. Don't talk to me about morals. I'm shallow, and if you don't like it, move along. Zhu Mingzhi always knew his place: a quiet ornament who was expected to be obedient. Once, Young Master Zhu was the light of a powerful financial family. Everything changed when the once-gentle, thoughtful heiress viciously tore apart the congratulatory gift he'd prepared with such care and demanded that he pay for a life with his own. Simply
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Your Highness, the Crown Prince, Your Consort Has Turned Dark 太子殿下，良娣已黑化
[Angst Before Payback] [The Crown Prince Begs for Her Back] [No Evil Female Rival] Everyone knew the Eastern Palace had a neglected consort who suffered the Crown Prince's coldness. Li Yunshu loved Lu Chao Ci for three years, but Lu Chao Ci only ever had eyes for the Crown Princess, Lan Yanjin. When the Crown Princess was attacked, Li Yunshu was framed as the culprit, and Lu Chao Ci personally pushed her into the abyss. Later, Li Yunshu turned dark and became a female general of an enemy kingdom
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