Bad Endings! Bad Endings! Not CEO Romance, and Keep It Short, but Make It Heartbreaking BE！！BE！！不是总裁文，一定要到短，还意难平
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Ink-Colored Roses 墨色入玫
The influence of his family environment left the boy deeply unhappy. He relied on his older brother to an unhealthy degree, mistaking dependence for love. After one disappointment after another, he finally broke down. “I hid the rose my brother gave me. He belongs only to me, and I don't want anyone else to smell its fragrance.” Shen Yan seemed trapped behind this window called warmth, rotting away until death.
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The Flowers Bloomed 花，开了
If not for that glass of “Glacier,” he would never have inexplicably walked toward him. If he had never met Chen Ji, he would probably still be shrouded in darkness, unable to believe that anyone in this world could truly love him. An Yi is the top seller in this part of town, a butterfly dancing on the edge of taboo, dazzling yet elusive. Chen Ji, a spotless top student, is like a little deer lost in forbidden territory. He has stepped into more than this absurd place: he has also entered An Y
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We’re All Supporting Characters in This Story 故事里面的我们都是配角
The first time she noticed him, his eyes were lowered, a smile playing on his lips as he said in a low voice, “Little girl.” The second time, he gave her a note that read, “A full stomach leads to lust.” He gave her a knowing smile and asked what she thought of the phrase. “Sounds good,” she said. … And what happened next? Well, her secret crush came true, and they rekindled their love, but in the end, it still couldn’t withstand the cruel joke fate played on them… A short angst story about un
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The Bluebird Flies Over Thorn Island 青鸟飞过荆棘岛
Her life was destined to be bleak, but there was someone willing to offer her his arms and warmth. She bore countless scars in this lifetime, but there was someone willing to hack through every obstacle for her and be her support. Yet would there ever be someone who could peel away her mask and see the cruel truth in her heart? She is an orphan in this beautiful world, a trapped beast in a warm cage. If you met her, would you cherish her? Would you love her?
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I Heard You Once Loved Me More Than Life 听说，你曾爱我如命
Xie Jingchuan said, “My only wish is for you to disappear from my sight forever.” After five loveless years of marriage, Song Youran had become the person her husband hated most. Later, she really did disappear. Everyone said Mrs. Xie had brought it upon herself and deserved to die with no one to claim her body. But as one old secret after another came to light, he discovered... In the best years of her life, she had once given him the purest love. She had also risked her life for him amid the r
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Shen Qingqing, Happy Wedding 沈清清，新婚快乐
Shen Qingqing, happy wedding day.
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Confess When the Wind Picks Up 趁风起时告白
Chi Jinjin has always been cautious, never taking risks. The boldest thing she ever did was secretly love the most popular boy in school for two years, then confess to him, only to be rejected miserably. After that, she put those feelings aside and buried the wild fantasies of her girlhood with her own hands. She never expected that, in college, the boy she had loved from afar would suddenly return from overseas. Leaning lazily against the railing, he hooked a finger through the chain on her sho
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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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Quick Transmigration: After the Tragic-Novel Heroine Gets a Unhinged Script 快穿：当虐文女主拿了疯批剧本后
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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Run! The Deranged Host Has No Heart 快跑，疯批宿主她没有心
[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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I’ve Never Forgotten Our Love 恋恋不曾忘
[Sweet campus romance + modern-day angst] Petite girl Li Hui has a crush on handsome campus heartthrob Lin Xun. While pursuing him, she accidentally ends up working two jobs at once. During college, the two share one heart-fluttering moment after another. Just as they are about to get together, Lin Xun suddenly announces his relationship on social media, and they go their separate ways. This unrequited love began in summer and ended in winter. Years later, after facing setback after setback, a
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Transmigrating to Punish Scoundrels 从穿越开始虐渣
[Satisfying scumbag takedowns + physical and emotional torment + broken relationships that can’t be mended + he dies every time] Wei Li, a model citizen, was hit by a truck while saving a brat who had run into the road. He’d imagined that the wonderful medical staff would bring him back to life, but instead, his soul floated out of his body as he watched the ambulance carry away his crushed, bloody corpse. For the first time in his life, he was speechless. With his body in that state, what were
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Quick Transmigration: After I Die, All the Yandere Big Shots Go Mad 快穿：我死后病娇大佬全疯了
As a nobody in the quick transmigration cannon-fodder group, Gu Bai has endured all sorts of spectacular deaths before finally graduating from pitiful cannon fodder to a member of the protagonist group. But why does every mission take place in a world from the cannon-fodder group? And these big shots have completely wrecked their character settings. “Gu Bai, if you die, I'll be buried with you.” Good grief, he's even more of a lunatic now. Later, when Gu Bai receives the System's mission-complet
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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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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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Quick Transmigration: The Powerhouses Wept When the White Moonlight Faked Her Death 快穿：白月光死遁后大佬们哭疯了
[Everyone's Favorite, Love Triangle Chaos, Quick Transmigration] The newly bound god looks innocent and guileless, but keeps earning an S for every mission! The CEO who gave him a surveillance doll gives in: “As long as you stay alive, I'll let you go.” After his first fake death fails, Ruomu is frantic: “Your destined partner is right behind you!” The difficult-to-please actor, secretly haughty and clingy: “Even if I die, you're taking me with you!” After his second fake death fails, Ruomu is b
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You Broke Your Promise 你失信了
The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily
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August Wutong 八月梧桐
[Childhood friends + unrequited love + tragic BE] She was his childhood friend, the girl he had loved since they were children, and the light of his life. Luo Yutong's notebook was filled with traces of her, but An Zishu never knew. Later, when An Zishu learned of his love, he had already left. Perhaps he had waited too long without ever hearing her say, “I love you.” He said, “An Zishu, in my next life, I’ll confess my feelings sooner.” He said, “I bet you’ll never know that I love you.” He sai
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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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May I Caress You Again 愿再轻抚你
Zhou Qiyue of West Wu No. 3 High School was a bona fide school bully. He did everything the school rules forbade. Then one day, a new girl joined the class next door. He called her ugly, yet warned his buddies not to chase after her. He wanted to get close to her, but carefully kept his distance. You are a star I can never reach. Later, rumors about the two of them dating reached the teachers’ office, and the teachers were alarmed. The homeroom teacher pointed at him and said, “A social degene
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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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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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A Regrettable Outcome 遗憾成局
A wild, carefree boy vs. a cool, well-behaved girl [School life + city life + unrequited love] [Bad ending] The rain in Beicheng was warm and stifling. That year, she was seventeen and he was eighteen. "…I want to get…a tattoo." Wen Yuyan's slender fingers clutched the hem of her clothes, her voice trembling. Qi Yue leaned closer, smiling. "Good students aren't supposed to get tattoos." His teasing voice and warm breath washed over her. The following winter, a heavy snowfall blanketed Beiche
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The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟
Years after graduation, a gossip post begins circulating on the message board for City Experimental School. The school's 2011 beauty, Ye Xiao, and its most handsome boy from the same year, Ruan Yusheng, are a couple. Their classmates, who know them well, rush over to set the record straight: it's pure rumor. There was never any spark between the two of them. Ye Xiao's profile even says, “Person I hate most: Ruan Yusheng.” People in the know go so far as to say, “Ye Xiao feels nothing but hatred
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Ode to White Hair 白头赋
In a daze, she seemed to see that young man again, standing in the spring sunshine as he asked her: “Do you have feelings for me?”
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Her Medical Records Were Signed by Lovers with N Different Surnames 她的病历本上，签过N个不同姓氏的恋人
Her medical records bore the signatures of N lovers, each with a different surname.
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Buying Sperm Beats Buying Pleasure? Her Life Doesn't Need Anyone's Disses 买精不如买欢？她的人生不需要任何人diss
Better to buy pleasure than sperm? Her life doesn’t need anyone’s disapproval.
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The Diplomat Left with a Child and Raised an Heir for Her Country 外交官她去父留子，给国家养了个继承人
The diplomat had a child and left the father behind, raising an heir for the nation
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Fishermen’s Lights on the River, Keeping Me Awake with Sorrow 江枫渔火对愁眠
She waited for him all her life, but he would never come back.
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My Younger Days 我的年少时
I dedicate this book to my one and only youth, which I remember with such regret! [Redemption + unrequited love + love that goes both ways + tragic ending] When I was six, I followed my mother to another village after she remarried. My broken family made me want to escape from my mother from a young age. I met Yang Luobei when I was seven. We were each other’s only friend. While he went to school, I stayed home to look after my younger siblings. When he started high school, I had only just gradu
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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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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 Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事
Lin Xu has a crush on the popular boy Ye Feng, and she remembers countless little details about him. Every day, Lin Xu times her departure down to the second, getting dressed and putting on her shoes in a hurry, all for the chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of his back. The music playing during the long break outside her classroom is Xu Song’s “Moon over Luzhou.” Lin Xu knows it’s the favorite song of Ye Feng, the school radio station’s announcer. Lin Xu has even stayed up all night organizing
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Spring Blossoms Never Return 春华不归
I must have told you I loved you hundreds of years ago. But you forgot, and I never remembered., “Lovers Who Missed Each Other” Years of companionship made him take her for granted. He was so sure she would always be there waiting for him that he went about his own business, treating her with indifference, because she was always there. Her heart finally went cold, and she left. Even the most precious thing seems ordinary once you have it. Only after losing it do you realize what it meant. He
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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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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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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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Loving You in Secret Was My Choice 暗恋你，是我的选择
[Lin Mengchu: sweet and adorable on the outside, rational and clear-headed top student on the inside VS Gu Shiyi: seemingly roguish and rakish, but actually a warmhearted, devoted voice actor] It’s a BE, a BE, a BE. We’re saying it three times because it’s important!!! The tags may say youthful sweet romance, but that doesn’t change the fact that the ending is an absolute BE! School life in the first half, life in society in the second. Though we’ve never met, I’ve been in love with you for
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The Wolf King's Wife: Sacrificed in the Womb 狼王妻：胎祭
The night my younger sister and I were born, a blood moon hung in the sky and a thousand wolves howled. From then on, a black wolf clung to me… ✨ When I was twenty, I killed my sister. But strange scales sprouted on my legs, and I became pregnant with the beast’s abomination…
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I Asked the Curtain-Roller, Who Said the Begonias Were Still in Bloom 试问卷帘人却道海棠依旧
I asked the maid who rolled up the blinds, but all she said was that the crabapples were still in bloom.
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