Looking for Short, Angsty Stories, Between 1 and 20 Chapters 求短虐文，1～20篇之间

154 重 Reunited in the Heart of the Lake 重逢，在湖光深处 Jin Nian25瑾年25Modern Romance20k WordsCompleted One shake brought two people thousands of miles apart together, but their growing connection was burdened by too many things beyond their control. What is meant to be will come to pass; what isn’t, cannot be forced. It’s just a shame… 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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Just five chapters, I read it in ten minutes, and cried for an hour [crying]

155 假 If Only You'd Let Me Be Young Again 假如许我再少年 Forest Bath森之汤Modern Romance268k WordsCompleted Ye Qingchen’s despair: She didn’t dare tell him she loved him. Zhou Shi’s grief: He didn’t have time to tell her he loved her. The phrase “if only” describes the overwhelming regret one feels over something that has already happened, and the futile fantasy of trying to change it. [The first time they met, he was twenty-five and she was twenty. He didn’t trust her and missed his chance to save her from despair, sealing her fate. The second time they met, he was thirty and she was twenty-five. The 4.8kReads9.1Score324Shelves

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After the heroine was poisoned, her heart, lungs and stomach failed and she became extremely sick, but she still managed to endure the pain and complete all her plans! She is so smart and gentle! The male protagonist didn't believe her in the early stage, but later he found out about her condition and felt very sorry for her. He sought medical treatment everywhere, but... To no avail! How cruel! [Cry]

156 燕 Where the Swallows Return, We Must Not Meet Again 燕归处，莫相逢 Mi Yuwangtu靡御忘荼Ancient Romance52k WordsCompleted Her name was Jun Mo. She had spent her life on horseback and on the battlefield, battle-hardened, bold, and arrogant. He was the person she loved most, and her only weakness. She feared he might get hurt if she so much as held him in her palm, and feared he might melt if she kept him in her mouth. But a weakness is itself a poisoned blade. At first, the pain is not fatal. In the end, the fatal wound no longer hurts. No one knew that later, amid the bitter winter snow, some people were only acti 801Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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In the second book, the female protagonist dies at the beginning. She abuses the female protagonist at the beginning and abuses the male protagonist later on. It's really good to watch.

157 我 I Finally Lost You 3: He Sleeps in the Wind 我终于失去了你3·他睡在风里 Mai Jiu麦九Urban136k WordsCompleted The bestselling heart-wrenching classic, the third and final book in the I Finally Lost You series, now with a sweet bonus epilogue! I like a boy who has a cat named Ruanruan and likes a girl named Niaoniao. He was fostered in a little city far, far south, and often missed someone who lived far, far north. People around him privately said he was precocious as a monster. He was born only because his mother wanted to keep the person she loved from leaving. That was, until he came to Baicheng and m 607Reads9.4Score128Shelves

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The trilogy of "Lost" is very interesting, but the first one has been removed from the shelves.

158 第 The Eighth Winter 第八年冬 Paper Eighteen纸十八Modern Romance68k WordsCompleted The first time the sensitive Li Xiting fell in love, it was with Chen Nian, the boy who seemed to glow as he stood in the crowd. She carefully held on to every interest they shared, and eventually turned those interests into a goal: getting into Nan University and being with him. But life is always cruel. She got into Nan University, but she didn't get him. She was like Cinderella in a fairy tale, except she didn't have the right glass slipper. Without that slipper, she could never enter his wor 226Reads8.3Score101Shelves

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The first three books are very short, with only a dozen chapters. They are all sad stories. They almost made me cry to death.

160 暗 The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事 Meng Zhiwan孟栀晚Modern Romance122k WordsCompleted 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 92.1kReads9.7Score16.7kShelves

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BE but not dead, just very sad. It feels very real and should be the author's personal experience.

161 碎 Shattered Stars Tribulation: A Ghost Immortal's Oath of Revenge 碎星劫，鬼仙的复仇誓约 Yu Bao榆寶18k WordsCompleted Shattered Star Tribulation: The Vengeful Oath of a Ghost Immortal 10Reads—Score—Shelves

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Abuse! Big abuse! Torture people to death! It's so cruel that my heart aches! Come and show them to me! The heroine of the first book was an orphan when she was a child, and was picked up by her master. She finally lived a good life for a few days, but in the end she was just a supported body. However, this is not the case. The truth is far more cruel than the heroine being forcibly taken away. The more you look at the back, the more sad you are. Both the hero and the heroine are miserable and cry to death. The heroine in the second book is very sober and smart. Then she is free and has no one to protect her. Faced with the bullying of the hero, she can only endure to please him. If the heroine had never fallen in love with the hero, then maybe the heroine could have a good ending. But she is really too short of love. The only person who is best to her is the person who bullied her. The hero is also miserable because of the mistakes he made when he was young. There will be no relief for the rest of your life, be is the ending that was doomed from the beginning.

163 他 His Bite Marks 他的咬痕 Mi Xiaoxi咪小汐Modern Romance281k WordsCompleted [Print edition signed and awaiting release] [Short drama now streaming] [Rekindled Romance + Reunion After Years Apart + Mutual Devotion + Mutual Salvation + Sweet Youthful Romance] In high school, Wen Shumiao had a passionate romance that ended in the most humiliating way possible. They meet again six years later. He's the owner of a tattoo shop, and she's become his employee. He treats her with the cold indifference of a stranger. But when Xie Jin sees Wen Shumiao carrying a suitcase, he final 64.2kReads9.5Score6.4kShelves

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I really cried to death. The second female lead was also very well written but she died.

164 我 My Youth, Your Stories 我的青春，你们的故事 Chunin of the Hundredfold Refining Tower百炼塔的中忍Modern Romance269k WordsCompleted A collection of several stories that will make your heart ache for the characters’ helplessness and despair. Time is the gentlest executioner. It takes away the ardor of youth, but leaves stories etched in wrinkles, so that every aging pupil holds a starry sky. The stories aren’t long, but they belong to our youth. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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Very sadistic. It's sad, but also sweet. Each chapter is a story.

165 江 Fishermen’s Lights on the River, Keeping Me Awake with Sorrow 江枫渔火对愁眠 Can't Catch不能扑Modern Romance54k WordsCompleted She waited for him all her life, but he would never come back. 1.3kReads8.6Score223Shelves

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It's really beautiful, believe me! The first one is actually a sweet novel, but it is a be. It made me cry to death. I just finished reading it. The second one is also super good. I won't go into details. I'll go read it myself. Anyway, these two books are the ceiling of sadism in my mind.

166 也 Perhaps There Was Once Light in the Deep Sea 也许深海曾有光 Ding Huaijin丁怀瑾Modern Romance75k WordsCompleted After an earthquake, young Jiang Ning began living with Song Ao, her younger brother by neither blood nor marriage, who had autism. In Song Ao’s world, Jiang Ning became his only splash of color. Years later, Jiang Ning was surprised to discover that her new boss was Shen Fang, the school heartthrob she had harbored innocent feelings for in her youth. At the same time, though, she sensed that her relationship with Song Ao was gradually changing, blurring the line between family love and romance. 657Reads9.3Score171Shelves

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I wasn't very abusive in the front, but I cried to death in the back and my nose was blocked.

167 斯 Si Nianqingqing 斯年轻轻 Silent Dixie沉默迪克西Modern Romance34k WordsCompleted [Groveling to win her back] [No getting back together] [Tragic ending] Cheng Qingqing's grand love for Fu Sinian was a mistake. She corrected it as soon as she realized, and would never look back at him again. She would never care how pathetically he begged. “Qingqing, I like you. I really do. Please, don't leave me. Please come home with me. Please give me a home. I'm begging you, don't leave me...” “Please...” It was actually Cheng Qingqing's birthday. At twenty-six, she seemed to have finally 815Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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They are all short stories. In the first one, the male protagonist is reunited after a long absence, and the male protagonist takes revenge, but the female protagonist dies due to illness. In the second book, the female protagonist was depressed all her life. I felt uncomfortable reading the whole story. In the third book, the male protagonist takes revenge on the female protagonist because of her strong love. In all three books, there is no reunion.

168 再 When We Meet Again, We’ll Be Worlds Apart 再见已是天上人间 Spring Thunder Cannon春雷炮Modern Romance41k WordsCompleted While Nan Sheng was still alive, she climbed the ninety-nine stone steps behind the Chenghuang Temple and prayed devoutly for Mo Beichen to return safely. But the day before she died, she fulfilled her vow. She said, “In my next life, I don’t want to meet him again.” After Nan Sheng died, Mo Beichen retraced the path she had taken, kneeling three times at every nine steps as he begged the gods to return his wife to him… He said, “If there is another life, may she live a carefree life, free from 790Reads5.3Score—Shelves

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Short sad story, ending HE

169 阉 The Eunuch 阉人 So It Is Said笑之曰Two Male Leads193k WordsCompleted Shuangjiang stood by Li Yue’s side as he went from a prince walking on thin ice to the throne, watching him marry one beautiful woman after another. Ten years ago, Shuangjiang said to the powerless Li Yue, “I’m only a eunuch. I wouldn’t dare eat this osmanthus cake.” Li Yue said, “Shuangjiang is my favorite person. From now on, I’ll bring you as much osmanthus cake as you want.” Ten years later, Shuangjiang was frail and ill, longing for a piece of osmanthus cake. Li Yue said, “You’re only a eun 3.5kReads8.4Score313Shelves

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I really recommend this, I cried to death at night

170 伴 Accompanied by Smoke 伴烟 Laba Coconut腊八椰子Ancient Romance106k WordsCompleted [Naive, Wild Girl x Gentle Scholar + Happy Ending] She loved him, so she ran to him with all the courage she could muster. Liu Yunzhi treated her wonderfully, caring for her and asking after her, soothing her to sleep at night, reading to her whenever he had time, stroking her slightly rounded belly, and discussing baby names with her. She lost herself in it, deceiving herself as she sank into the gentle web he had woven, dreaming that they would be the only two in each other’s lives forever. Bu 4.3kReads9.3Score358Shelves

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I finished reading it last night, and I cried after finishing half the paper.

171 最 The Royal Family Is Truly Heartless 最是皇室无情人 Xia Xiaoli夏小礼Ancient Romance50k WordsCompleted 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... 1.1kReads7.0Score101Shelves

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The first book is very short, with only 16 chapters. The heroine has been frail and sick since childhood. But it was the day before my birthday. In the second book, the heroine's house was ransacked and she poisoned herself to death, leaving a child for the hero.

172 我 The Mountains and Seas Between Me and My Love 我与所爱隔山海 Nine Songs九歌Modern Romance34k WordsCompleted You were the only sunlight and warmth in my life, but you left me with nothing but despair, and made me feel so filthy... 90Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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They're all pretty good. It's fun to torture your wife for a while, but it's a crematorium for chasing your wife.

174 夜 Young Master Ye, Stop Tormenting Me. Your Wife Is Already Gone 夜少别虐了，夫人已尸骨无存 Autumn Unseen不见秋Modern Romance189k WordsCompleted [Elite Family Tragedy | Obsessive Love | CEO’s Regretful Pursuit | Faked Death and Rebirth]“Su Yan, a wicked woman like you might as well be dead.” Su Yan had loved Ye Xiaohan for twelve years, but Ye Xiaohan despised her in every way. Su Yan thought that one day, Ye Xiaohan would realize how good she was, but he continued to hurt her without restraint. After suffering endless humiliation and abuse, and even having the child they shared taken away from her... Su Yan finally understood that Ye Xi 1.9kReads8.3Score195Shelves

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Being humiliated in every possible way, forcibly harmed, and having even her blood-connected children taken away... Su Yan finally realized that Ye Xiaohan really wanted her to die. However, Su Yan is really dead. The man who hated her so much knelt in front of the grave and cried heartbrokenly: "Honey, I was wrong! Please come back!"

175 困 Imprisoned by Love 困爱成囚 Flowers Along the Way一路笙花Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted 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 22.8kReads9.0Score2kShelves

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It's really sad because I collect sad articles. Some of them are a little beyond 20 chapters, but they are not long. I still have several copies.

177 桔 The Bellflower Is Not White 桔梗不白 Paris Is Pretending to Be Drunk巴黎在装醉Modern Romance20k WordsCompleted Every moment spent near him was full of telltale slips. A performance called unrequited love is the hardest one to pull off. - (The male lead doesn't cheat. He appears as a ghost, hoping the heroine will finally give up on him and stop grieving. He also sacrifices his reputation so netizens will stop attacking her. If someone has to be swallowed up by public opinion, he wants it to be him. It's a self-destructive attempt to save her: he gives up his life and his good name, as long as she's all r 198Reads8.1Score105Shelves

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This book is so sad that I cried after reading it. I still remember a sentence in the book, why Platycodon is not white because it has the kiss marks of the lover on it.

178 指 A Feast at Your Fingertips 指尖盛宴 Forest Bath森之汤Modern Romance166k WordsCompleted Four years after they last saw each other, Gu Senning took Zeng Zhanzhan to court, accusing her of drugging him and taking the project files from his computer. He had no idea that four years earlier, she had been severely injured in a car accident while saving him, leaving her permanently blind... Later, Gu Senning was consumed by remorse. When she lay in the hospital, with no will to live, he was enjoying life! When she writhed in pain, her whole body convulsing and drenched in cold sweat, he s 4.5kReads8.2Score138Shelves

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The male protagonist never knew that the female protagonist saved him in a car accident four years ago, resulting in permanent blindness! Because the company's confidential documents were leaked, he took the heroine to court, accusing her of peeking into his plans and quotations. When he learned about her medical examination report, he realized that she could not see... [Sad][Sad]

179 我 I Wait for Yan to Return 我等燕归来 Show Me the Way示我周行Modern Romance24k WordsCompleted (Completed + mutual healing + bad ending) A dead man. A torrential downpour. The boy who said he would protect her forever had been missing for five years. She turned around, and he was standing right there. He didn't call out to her or say, "Let's go home." 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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The kind of whimpering that bursts into tears

180 墙 The Name in the Corner: A Second Chance at Life 墙角的名字之重活一次 Baa Baa Baa羊羊羊咩咩咩Modern Romance82k WordsCompleted In her "previous life," she loved someone she could never have. When she saw him again, she learned he was getting married. Her depression worsened, and after one blow after another, Tong Hua found herself on the hospital rooftop. In that moment, she forgot her fear of heights and plunged down. When she woke up again, she realized she had returned to her high school days. What should she choose this time? Was she really reborn? —Reads—Score—Shelves

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At that time, the innocent girl thought that all problems could be solved by just meeting

181 瞎 The Blind Young Master Wants to Marry Me 瞎子少爷要娶我 Eighty-Eight八拾捌14k WordsCompleted The Blind Young Master Wants to Marry Me 365Reads—Score—Shelves

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Short story abuse

187 一 A Fleeting Sparkle 一霎花火 Night Tower夜楼Modern Romance121k WordsCompleted An Yuzhi: Even though you've been a star for so many years, I don't want you to be so lonely. It's too painful to love someone you can't have. I can't bear it, and neither can you. “That's right, my acting is too good. I'm afraid you'll see through me if I don't act well enough, but sometimes I'm also afraid I'll act so well that you'll really think I've forgotten you!” His eyes were red-rimmed, and his lips trembled violently. “Zhizhi, you're lying to me again, aren't you? Your acting is so ba 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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"Yes, my acting skills are so good. I'm afraid that you will find out if I don't act well, but sometimes I'm afraid that if I act too well, you'll really think I've forgotten you!" His eyes were red and his lips were trembling violently: "Zhizhi, are you lying to me again, right? Your acting skills are so bad that I won't be fooled by you. Can you open your eyes and look at me?"

188 奈 Alas, the Years Have Wasted My Love 奈何流年枉情深 A Ying阿影Modern Romance60k WordsCompleted “Manman, Jin Liang isn’t someone you can afford to love.” Three years ago, Xia Man ignored her father’s advice and stubbornly fell in love with Jin Liang. From then on, she flew straight into the flames, doomed to ruin. She endured humiliation and went to prison just to protect the person he held dearest. His heartlessness left her utterly despairing. After she was left battered and bruised, she stopped loving him. But he searched the ends of the earth for her, arriving before her, weary fro 983Reads6.0Score—Shelves

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Just cry to death, woo woo woo

189 春 Spring Banquet 春日宴 Egrets in Pairs白鹭成双Ancient Romance664k WordsCompleted 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 16.6kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves

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The first one is super short with only ten chapters. It's very sad, super sad, and has a lot of staying power. It has short sentences and the essence of each sentence. Keep tissues ready when reading. The following two chapters have more chapters.

191 我 My Life Is Yours 我的命，都给你 Three Pine Nuts三只松子Modern Romance48k WordsCompleted Ji Mingshu hated Xu Meiling with all his heart and tormented her until she died. But when she was really gone, Ji Mingshu realized... he had fallen in love with her. 2.8kReads8.1Score345Shelves

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These are so cruel

197 爱 The Lies of Love 爱情的谎言 Little Tangyuan2019小汤团2019Modern Romance55k WordsCompleted Lu Wanwan had been married for two years, but still hadn’t gotten pregnant. She secretly got tested without telling her husband, only to discover that he had been swapping her vitamins for medication that caused infertility. The reason was that the man he truly loved was someone else. She was merely a stand-in, unfit to bear his child. As she agonized over confronting her husband, the true love who had disappeared for years suddenly came back. 240Reads6.9Score—Shelves

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The second book, especially the second one, the male protagonist is super perverted

199 渣 The Scumbag Can't Have Me, Quick Transmigration 渣男对我求而不得【快穿】 Shui Mu Qing水木青Ancient Romance315k WordsCompleted 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 5kReads9.1Score428Shelves

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Make me cry!! The only article that makes me cry every time I read it

200 今 Love Hasn't Fallen Asleep Tonight 今夜爱未眠 Little Tangyuan2019小汤团2019Modern Romance60k WordsCompleted Fifteen years ago, Lu Xiaozhen risked her life to save Huo Heng. Fifteen years later, she got her wish and married him, only to suffer his coldness and humiliation after their wedding. Two years later, he asked for a divorce and went to another woman. Lu Xiaozhen didn't cry or make a scene. She gave up on him and left with her head held high. Only after the truth came to light did Huo Heng try to win her back, but by then, it was too late. 256Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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Complete the short abuse story