Angst! Angst! Angst! The Kind That’s Extremely Heartbreaking 虐！虐！虐！超级虐的那种
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Chosen by the Phoenix: The Cold Emperor Falls for Her 凤命皇后，冷皇他沦陷了
The Imperial Preceptor once declared that the legitimate daughter of the Jiang family was born with the fate of a phoenix, destined for wealth and honor. Jiang Yiwan, the Jiang family's legitimate daughter, had been showered with love since childhood and enjoyed endless riches and privileges. Then an accident revealed the truth: she was not the legitimate daughter. Overnight, she went from legitimate daughter to concubine-born daughter. She was not the daughter of the principal wife, but the chi
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When Time Blossoms into Fireworks 当时光绽放成花火
When they first met, they saw the desolation in each other: two stubborn, headstrong children, their bare feet on thorns, still gazing toward heaven. In those innocent days, she felt the purest stirrings of love. From then on, she saw no one but him, with his gaze flickering in the darkness, touched by sorrow. Even though she was nothing more than a lowly weed berry, all she wanted was to give everything she had to heal the wound in his heart that would never close. But perhaps he'd forgotten wh
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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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The Scumbag Can't Have Me, Quick Transmigration 渣男对我求而不得【快穿】
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
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Quick Transmigration: The White Moonlight Tears Up the Cannon Fodder Plot Again 快穿：白月光又撕了炮灰剧本
At first, none of them liked her. Later, she became the unreachable first love in their hearts! A scum-trashing Mary Sue romance, with regretful exes chasing their wives! After cultivating for a thousand years, the parasitic vine spirit Si Si finally succeeds in ascending. But during the Ascension Ceremony, her superior gets her in trouble. The Heavenly Dao orders her to help cannon-fodder supporting heroines in three thousand worlds fulfill their wishes. Only after earning enough merit can she
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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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No One in the World Is Like Her Anymore 世上无人再像她
Shen Ange knew that love could leave you battered to the bone, but without love she would become a walking corpse. Stubbornly, she believed that life was long enough for her to wait until he came back to her. In the end, though, she could no longer hold on...
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At Last, I Admit Defeat 终于愿赌服输
“Why couldn't you be the one who got sick?” “Why couldn't you be the one who died?” With drunken eyes, the man bends down and whispers the most heartless words in the gentlest voice. But he doesn't know that she really is going to die.
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President Li, Your Wife Doesn’t Deserve to Die 厉总，夫人她罪不至死
Shen Zhichu had given him her whole heart for sixteen years, only to be told to leave with nothing, just so he could make room for the woman he had always loved. Li Jingshen thought he would be happy once that woman was gone, until he received her diagnosis... He rushed over in a panic, only to find her holding someone else’s hand. “Why didn’t you tell me you had stomach cancer?” “Weren’t you hoping I’d die sooner?” Shen Zhichu laughed scornfully. “Li Jingshen, I don’t want to spend the last of
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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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Quick Transmigration: My Host Is Frail and Helpless, but Completely Unhinged 快穿疯批：我那宿主柔弱不能自理
In every tragic romance, the heroine is tormented by the hero until her heart is torn apart, and her heart, kidneys, and brain are cut out. Yet the heroine loves the hero without fail, devoting herself wholeheartedly to her career as his doormat. Now Jingsha has become the heroine of a tragic romance. She's obsessive, unstable, scummy, and downright crazy. She torments the male lead, then the male supporting character, then the female supporting character. In the end, they all love her but can n
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The System's a Clown, I Make Things Worse: Rebellious to the Core 系统沙雕我添堵，一身反骨离大谱
They came from distinguished families and were beautiful, talented, and exceptional. But whenever they crossed paths with the male and female leads, they became brainless cannon fodder, burning themselves up to make the leads’ romance flourish until their dying breath. And now Gu Mo has become all those women from countless novels. System: Boss, you can face-slap the villains and break up those couples! Go get ’em! Gu Mo: I’m awesome! I can do this! Much later, the System stares in bewilderment
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As a Great Demon of the Primordial World, She Begins Quick Transmigration 当洪荒大妖她开始快穿
[Quick Transmigration] [No Romance] [Strong Female Lead] Li Ku was once a piece of deadwood from the Primordial Realm, rootless and adrift in the abyss. Her daily routine was to watch countless great demons enter in perfect shape and leave missing limbs. One day, someone claiming to be a Tasker mistook her for a treasure and brought her back to the Time and Space Administration. No freeloaders were allowed there, so Li Ku, gathering dust, was kicked into a mission world. What was a mission? In t
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There Was Once Someone Who Loved Me Like Life Itself 曾有一个人，爱我如生命
For more than twenty years, Shen Siyan had stubbornly loved a man named Xiao Zonghan. Even when he resented and hated her, she had never thought of giving up. But now, she was reaching the end of her strength...
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Mr. Mo, Stop Torturing Her. Your Wife Is Innocent 莫总别虐了，夫人她是无辜的
A sudden accident at sea entangled two people who had barely known each other, drawing them into a relationship born of a mistake. In the name of revenge, Mo Lingbei destroyed everything beautiful in Fu Qing's life, turning her into someone else: a substitute forced to live under another person's identity, forever hidden from the light. But gradually... As the two spent every day together amid this revenge, he slowly came to understand her. The girl he'd once thought was a spoiled, idle, useless
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She Stopped Comforting Him 她不哄他了
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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Mr. Mo, Your Wife Says You're Crazy 墨总，夫人说你是疯子
After three years in prison, Lin Xiaohan finally sees daylight again. On her wedding night, she is humiliated in every way and vows to become the CEO's wife. Mo Zhan despises the Lin family, yet loves Lin Xiaohan desperately. “If loving you can't make you stay, then I'll make you hate me. Hate is better than leaving!” “You're insane!” “That's right. Loving you drove me completely mad.” They torment each other even as they fall in love, locked in a bitter romance for years. Will this ill-fated re
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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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The CEO Is Seriously Ill 总裁他病的不轻
Su Lilu spent her life yearning for a love that was never returned. The man she loved never once responded. One day, she tore up her cancer diagnosis and drove her car into a fatal crash. After she died, he began to love her… Reborn, he gazed at her smiling face, his eyes full of madness. In the year after her death in his previous life, the pain ate away at him, and only then did he realize he had already fallen in love with her. So in this life, he would stop at nothing to keep her by his side
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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
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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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Imprisoned by Love 困爱成囚
Rumor has it that Gu Yansheng, the adopted daughter of the Gu family, had loved the Ninth Master of the Lu family in the imperial capital for years. He couldn't stand her, and for the sake of the woman he cherished, he sent her to prison and had her tortured for five whole years. But no one expected that when the Ninth Master eventually married, his bride would be none other than Gu Yansheng, the woman with a prison record! Everyone eagerly awaited the spectacle, expecting to see how the Ninth M
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Hot and Cold 冷热
In the shifting warmth and chill of your gaze, a vow points straight to the heavens. One rainy night, the doctor Jiang Sui accidentally witnesses a murder. Having seen the entire crime unfold, she becomes the killer's target. Relying on her wits, she escapes death time and again, yet through a twist of fate, she steps into the maze of the criminal underworld. Warning: angst-heavy story. If that bothers you, don't read!
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Who Says Xizhou Doesn't Understand? 谁言西洲不知意
When they first met, Gu Xizhou gave her a cold, mocking smile, with a hint of flirtation. “Miss Xu, your waist is so slender and soft. I wonder if it would break easily...” “Scoundrel!” Xu Zhiyi was furious. Later, he underestimated her and lost. “Of all the women I've met, Miss Xu is the most cunning, the most vicious, and the most ungrateful.” He gave her one last look, then disappeared into the vast snow. After many twists and turns, she eventually became his wife. After they married, he said
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Su Wan's Diary: The Seven Days Before Her Death 苏晚日记——临终前七日
Su Wan's Diary: Seven Days Before Death
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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
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The Cannon Fodder’s Handbook: Offering the Author an HE Script! 炮灰手册：向作者献上HE剧本！
(If you’re uncomfortable with a 1vN story, enter at your own risk.) After Yuan Ning was hit by a car, she discovered she was a disposable character in a novel who had gone mad over unrequited love. How could that be allowed? She could live without a man, but she couldn’t go to prison! Terrified, Yuan Ning immediately steered clear of the man she secretly adored. She could live without a man in this life, but not without her freedom! She tried everything from street vending to part-time jobs, but
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The Mandate of Heaven: Poetry and Martial Arts 天命诗武
[Xianxia, fantasy, transmigration, alternate world] Hidden divine spells, illusions shattered across the sky. Evil is vanquished throughout the world, without beginning or end. Xiao Yihao and Shen Mengli climb Floating Cloud Peak and accidentally stumble into Moonlight Cave. There, they find the Moonlight Box and transmigrate to another world. This is a strange world where people cultivate through poetry and duel with poems. It is divided into four realms: humans, gods, demons, and monsters. Eac
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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 Before Midsummer 爱在盛夏以前
A youthful love story about three men and three women whose lives are bound together in the city. It begins when Luan Xiaoqi is cheated on and gets her heart broken, and ends with, “Xiaoqi, as long as you’re happy, that’s all that matters. I’ll listen to you and do whatever you want.” [A little heartache] [A little angst]
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Anonymous, Dyed Warm 匿名染温
A collection of three stories: “Crossing the River Alone,” “Waiting for Winter,” and “The Promise That Came Too Late.” [School Story] + [Bad Ending] Ever since “the clay bodhisattva” showed up, Jiang Ye could tell his standing in the family was on shaky ground. Wen Ni was a “good girl” in everyone else’s eyes, but to him… “…What kind of fairy? She’s more like a bodhisattva.” Bai Lin: Jiang Ye, make sure you look after A-Ni. Jiang Ye: …So I’m just being ignored, huh? Yep, that’s definitely my re
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Dusk Comes Late 晚晚辞暮
[A girl with depression and a lonely boy] Bad ending It was both salvation and an abyss. Step by step, she fell into the dust. “They trampled on my dignity as they pleased. Only he stayed by my side.” He said, “Most people who love each other in this world can’t be together.” So that year, one person celebrated a happy new marriage, while another lay in eternal rest. I thought we would always be together, but I forgot about the mountain birds and the road... Years passed, and we never met again
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The Secret of the White Camellia 白山茶的秘密
The evil dragon that escaped from the abyss grabbed me, trying to devour me. I ran frantically through the dark corridor, until at last I fell. I was afraid, desperate, and heartbroken, until I gave up the will to live. Inside an ancient castle where sunlight had never reached, I hid, little by little being eaten by the evil dragon... And my knight shattered the glass that symbolized the solemnity of the rules, leaped down from above, and killed the dragon with a swing of his sword. Shi Yu d
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Completed, No Continuation 已完不续
A heartbreaking campus romance you can read in one sitting I am a beast trapped in a castle, waiting for you to save the rose that is about to wither. The second Lu Chiqiu slipped a love letter into Xin Xu’s desk, her mother and his father were carried out of a garage, overcome by carbon monoxide. Neither of them was wearing any clothes. At that moment, a young girl’s secret crush became the most humiliating thing imaginable. Content warning: The male lead dies in the year he loves the female
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A Love Letter from the Twenty-Fifth Time Zone 第二十五时区的情书
[Print edition now available] The love they felt as teenagers was buried in the sound of the wind on the day their hearts first stirred. By the time it crossed mountain after mountain to reach their hearts, the wind had died, leaving only unresolved longing. - Zhou Jingni's unrequited love wasn't like that of other girls left to act out a one-sided romance. She and Shen Yi were childhood friends, born into the same Beijing compound. They grew up and went to school together, and as teenagers they
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He Lives in Heaven 他住在天堂里
[Signed for print publication] [He has loved her in secret for ten years, tragic ending + male lead dies of cancer + tearjerker campus romance] “The girl I’ve loved for ten years got married. I personally placed her hand in her future husband’s. The last time I called her by name was at her wedding.” Jiang Chi
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I’ll Go See You in the Moonlight 替月亮去见你
[Lin Jiu, a girl wounded by her family, vs. the gentle, brilliant student Jiang Shiyue] [School life + reunion after years apart + healing] If someone asked Lin Jiu whether she regretted falling in love with Jiang Shiyue, her answer would be no. When she was nineteen, the boy came beneath the moonlight, his eyes filled with countless stars. “Lin Jiu, there’s no moon in the sky tonight, but I’m here behind you. From now on, on every dark night, I’ll come to see you in the moon’s place.” Those wor
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Meeting Summer 见夏天
Xia Linxi x Tang Yu Xia Linxi is a sophomore with excellent grades and impeccable conduct. Tang Yu is a carefree bar singer. They’re worlds apart, with nothing in common. No one could have imagined that one day the two of them would end up together. In a dark alley, Xia Linxi saw Tang Yu locked in an intimate embrace with a strange woman, but she simply left in silence. She believed the man before her was nothing like the womanizing facade he showed the world. She saw right through him at a glan
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I Hate Being Twenty-Three in the Summer 讨厌23岁的夏天
Gentle girl VS sensitive boy At seventeen, in the innocence of youth, she fell in love with him. At nineteen, in the best years of his life, he died in her arms. At twenty-three, Ye Xi was supposed to attend her high school reunion, but unexpectedly she traveled back to the year she was seventeen. Familiar memories washed over her, along with the chance to meet him again… Ye Xi thought Xing Zhou had forgotten the child who used to cling to her all day, insisting on going with her even to the con
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He's More Irresistible Than Spring 他比春色撩人
Original titles: When Secrets Burn / It Turns Out We Were All Cowards Everyone gets a bad ending | A touch of ensemble cast | Bittersweet youth Su Qing'an thought that if he hid his love for Mu Xi as best he could, then after he died, she wouldn't grieve or feel sad for him. He also knew full well that he wasn't worthy of her. The only thing he could do was spend the three years he had left quietly by her side as a friend. But when a boy named Xu Yinan appeared beside Mu Xi, he still lost contro
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A Secret Crush with a Hint of Tangerine 橘子味的暗恋
[Gentle academic prodigy Lin Xia × dashing bad boy heartthrob Mo Chengsheng] She never got to see that first snow, and she didn't make it through that bitter winter. Her life ended forever at the age of twenty-two. One summer, Lin Xia met Mo Chengsheng. One glance was all it took for her to fall helplessly, hopelessly in love. Her secret crush remained hidden from the world. Mo Chengsheng became a knot deep in her heart. “My name is Lin Xia.” “Mo Chengsheng.” Mo Chengsheng: “Are we not friend
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You, or Someone Like You 你或像你的人
Be. Documentary filmmaker × undercover police officer Xu Yuan had an accident while filming a documentary and woke up with amnesia. After that, she often dreamed of a mountain road she could never find her way off. A year later, Xu Yuan ran into her high school classmate, Zhou Yiran. She wanted to get closer to him because the scent of mint and orange he carried had appeared in her dreams countless times. Zhou Yiran had been secretly in love with Xu Yuan for nine years. At last, his wish came t
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Spring Mud 椿泥
[Mutual secret crush + healing + tragic ending] A ten-year story of unspoken love brought to light by a plane crash. He loved her quietly for ten years, and she was the only person he ever loved. Every year on her birthday, he would take a long train ride to her city just to see her from afar. But an accident took him away forever. Only when his mother gives her his college diary does she learn that a faithful soul had been loving her deeply all along. Perhaps he wanted to see the snow fall in c
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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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What I Thought Was a Secret Crush Was Actually a Long-Planned Scheme 以为的暗恋，其实是蓄谋已久
A poor girl × a rich young master, [mutual secret crushes / campus youth / BE] Huang Suhe took her secret crush as far as it could go without anyone noticing. What she didn't know was that the person she liked had been plotting to win her over for a long time, too.
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As the Year Draws to a Close 岁暮将晚
[Marriage first, love later + love grows over time + tragic romance, BE + heroine has a secret crush] “Because I love you, I want the rest of your life to be filled with peace and happiness.” To fend off her mother's pressure to marry, Jiang Li took the initiative and proposed marriage to her blind date. The two gradually fell for each other while living together, and their married life was happy. But it all vanished in the blink of an eye... Jiang Li lied to Su Zimu only three times in her li
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Quick Transmigration: The Top Villain Must Turn Over a New Leaf 快穿之顶级反派要洗白
A final-boss-level villain across a thousand lifetimes, with too much blood on her hands. In her last life, she is reborn under the vicious curse of the vengeful souls from her past lives. She brings misfortune to heaven, earth, and her parents, destroying every last bit of good fortune around her. Luckily, she encounters the Ultimate Villain Redemption System, which lets her transmigrate with cheat-like powers and rewrite history. She thought that once she redeemed her past-life self, she could
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