Angsty Stories: Short and Heartbreaking, Enough to Make Your Eyes Swell from Crying! 虐文，短且虐的！虐到眼睛哭肿的！！
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Twin Lotuses on the Wangchuan River (Part One) 忘川河上并蒂莲（上）
Twin Lotuses on the River of Forgetfulness (Part 1)
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- 152 Awakening from the Dream, My Silent Unrequited Love 梦醒，暗恋无声 On Jiang Shiyan's birthday, his first love returned from abroad. They held a huge celebration behind my back. That's when I found out they were about to get engaged. I was his official girlfriend, yet they dragged me out and laughed at me. His friends teased him, “You only confessed to her because you lost a bet. Who knew you'd actually stay together this long?” “Now that you're engaged, isn't she going to throw a fit, threaten to kill herself, or run away from home to force you to marry her?” H 429Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 Twin Lotuses on the Wangchuan River (Part Two) 忘川河上并蒂莲（下） Twin Lotuses on the River of Forgetfulness (Part 2) 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 I Wish I Could Love You Forever 好想一直爱你 With my life running out, I started giving up on everything. I left the noisy big city and returned to a small town. According to a neighbor, the town police handle all kinds of requests. The locals can go to them for anything, even collecting and burying the dead. I'm afraid I'll suddenly go to sleep one day and never wake up, with no one to arrange my funeral. 15.3kReads—Score317Shelves
- 155 A Goddess Falls to Earth and Promises You a Lifetime 神落凡尘，许卿一生 A god falls to the mortal world and promises you a lifetime. 33Reads—Score—Shelves
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Hidden in Late Winter 深藏晚冬
[Signed for publication] [Two top students + love that grows over time + youth and school days + angst] Gentle, sweet girl × jealous, cocky boy * At sixteen, he said he wanted to become a police officer and protect the people. She said she wanted to become a doctor and save lives. * At seventeen, he said, “We met in winter, Wen Yu. We'll spend so many more winters together. Take care of this white camellia for me for now.” The wind lifted the hem of the boy's coat, and his eyes shone. So she rem
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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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- 158 Upside-Down Dragon 颠阳倒龙 Upside-Down Yang, Dragon Reversed 23Reads—Score—Shelves
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Lotus in an Emerald Cage 翡翠笼中莲
The Lotus in the Jade Cage
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- 160 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 68.3kReads9.2Score5.1kShelves
- 161 A Love That Eats to the Bone: She Came from Hell 蚀骨危情：她从地狱来 Shen Xiujin personally sent Jian Tong to prison. For three years, deprivation became the daily theme of her life. What was taken from her was no longer just the things on the surface. The day Jian Tong walked out of prison... She said, “When Shen Xiujin became my nightmare, I’d rather never sleep again, and stay exhausted until I drop dead.” 5kReads7.1Score230Shelves
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After I Died, Everyone Was Left to Regret It 我死后，全员火葬场
After I Died, Everyone Held a Cremation for Me
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- 163 Locked Glaze 锁琉璃 Locked Glaze 433Reads—Score—Shelves
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After I Died, My Forensic Pathologist Husband Dissected Me with His Own Hands 我死后，法医丈夫亲手解剖了我
After I died, my forensic pathologist husband dissected me with his own hands
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- 165 Infested 入蛊 “Why does my heart race uncontrollably whenever I see you?” “So that’s what it means to be bewitched by you.” “Bewitched, and loving you to the bone.” 626Reads8.5Score102Shelves
- 166 A Merchant's Charm in Troubled Times 乱世商娇 A Charismatic Merchant in Troubled Times 184Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 I Saved Him from a Fire, but He Mistook Someone Else for His Savior 救他火场重伤，他却错认恩人 I rescued him from a fire when he was badly injured, but he mistook someone else for his savior. 143Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 After My Sister Was Paralyzed, I Became Her Substitute 姐姐瘫痪后，我成了她替身 After My Sister Was Paralyzed, I Became Her Replacement 67Reads—Score—Shelves
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An Unbroken Bond 藕断丝连
Tangled Affection
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- 170 The Substitute 替身 Substitute 799Reads—Score—Shelves
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Sleeping Peacefully Beneath the Sophora Tree 顾枕槐安
Younger man + substitute + love grows over time + regretful pursuit of the ex + putting scumbags in their place + angst, angst, and more angst!!! Before he turned eighteen, Du Huai’an had no father in his life. The year he turned eighteen, his mother, who had raised him alone, was diagnosed with stomach cancer. So she took him to meet the man who was supposedly his father. That was when he learned his father was the head of the prestigious Zhu family in Jingyuan. He entered the Zhu family as the
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I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死
From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While
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The Bellflower Is Not White 桔梗不白
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
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Sick Obsession 病态痴迷
After three years with Jiang Qichuan, Wen Mian became pregnant. Her heart was full of joy, but all she got from him was: “She’s back.” She left without a word, hiding her pregnancy. But he refused to let her go. He drove her family to their deaths and clipped her wings, turning her into a canary in a cage once more, kept from the light of day. Jiang Qichuan said, “You were the one who started dreaming above your station.” Only later, after a fire claimed two lives, did he finally see her pregnan
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Si Nianqingqing 斯年轻轻
[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
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Quick Transmigration: I Became the Moonlight Who Made Powerful Men Weep 快穿：成了虐哭大佬的白月光
One-on-one ‖ Not a strong female lead ‖ Tragic ending (read with caution) The King of the Underworld had placed a restriction on Yunchu's body. Her daily entertainment was teasing the little ghosts on the River of Forgetfulness and collecting tolls from passersby. Then a System calling itself 007 found her. It promised to give her a body if she completed missions in various small worlds. In each small world, there's always a character who suffers early on but grows powerful later. Yunchu's missi
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A Love for Springtime: Summer Trees, Heaven’s Hope (Complete Edition) 夏有乔木雅望天堂（全集）
A heartbreaking coming-of-age legend that has moved hundreds of millions of readers for seven years! Qu Weiran is a good student, excelling in both character and academics. But when his adoptive father appears, his mask is shattered, and everyone learns that he is nothing but a pitiful victim of domestic abuse. Even a boy as dark and troubled as he is keeps a girl in his heart: Xia Tong, the gentle girl he loves. But Qu Ningyuan, a boy who shares his father but not his mother, has fallen for her
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A Tender Rose Becomes His Cherished Favorite in the Apocalypse 温软玫瑰沦为他心尖偏宠【末世】
[A post-apocalyptic setting + a trash man’s regret + the arch-enemy villain takes the lead + love triangle drama + mutual salvation + swoony romance + romantic aesthetics + both leads are devoted to each other] [Gentle, steadfast beacon of righteousness x refined, unhinged smiling schemer (irresistibly wicked)] Even as she lay dying, Wen Yao couldn’t understand what she had ever liked about Shen Yichuan. Was it his coldheartedness, or his selfishness? As his partner, she had risked her life for
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One-Man Show 独角戏
[Signed for simplified Chinese publication] I wish I were brave, but when it comes to loving you, I always feel so unworthy.
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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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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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After Losing My Memory, I Dumped My Scumbag Husband 失忆后，我踹掉了渣男老公
After Losing My Memory, I Dumped My Scumbag Husband
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Cherished Darling 心肝宠
(Top-tier wealthy family, a modern Jiangnan beauty as the heroine, an obsessive male lead, the heroine pursues him at first, then he spoils her relentlessly, devoted to each other, happy ending) For the sake of the child in her belly, Lu Zhiling was forced to marry an obsessive tycoon. Everyone thought she wouldn’t live long enough to give birth. To stay alive, she began winning him over. Before she knew it, she had become the apple of his eye. Later, she prepared to run away. His car was perche
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Tragic! She Died the Day His One True Love Returned Home 虐！她死在了他白月光回国的当天
Heartbreaking! She died the day his beloved returned from abroad.
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！
A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp
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A Blossom, A Cup of Wine, An Immortal Life 一花一酒一仙人，亦眠亦醉亦长生
[This book is also known as The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring] [The print edition of The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring goes on sale at 7 p.m. on November 15!] [Immortality + taking disciples + no female lead + lighthearted comedy, no tearjerkers] When your master serves food, you spin the table; when your master chants a spell, you chatter away. When your master rests, you sing; when your master sleeps in, you bang on a pot. Your master is immortal, but your life is short; your master
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- 187 I Saved the Whole Village, Only to Become Their Plaything? My Dead Husband Returned and Slaughtered the Ungrateful 救全村却沦为玩物？亡夫归来杀光白眼狼 She saved the whole village, only to become their plaything? Her dead husband returns and slaughters every ungrateful traitor. 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 I’d Give You Everything but My Life 我的命，都不给你 The author got rained on, tore up the umbrella, and still kicked everyone into a filthy ditch. This story features all kinds of medical miracles. The male lead is lovesick and possessive, the female lead is hard to describe, and the supporting men and women are all outstanding. If you don't think the author's writing is exciting enough, head to the comments section! Surely something there will strike a chord. But enough of that. Here's the not-so-serious synopsis: Ji Mingshuo loved Xu Lingling w 724Reads8.8Score103Shelves
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Forced to Marry the Ninth Prince 迫嫁九王妃
Forced to Marry the Ninth Prince
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- 190 Three Years After My Death, the Mad Young Marshal Dug Up My Grave 死后第三年，疯批少帅掘了我的坟 Three Years After My Death, the Mad Young Marshal Dug Up My Grave 129Reads—Score—Shelves
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Boys Deserve to Be Protected, Too 男孩子也要好好保护自己
Boys Need to Protect Themselves, Too
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- 192 The Day the Real Heiress Came Home, My Little Brother Swallowed a Whole Bottle of Sleeping Pills 真千金回家那天，弟弟吞了一整瓶安眠药 The Day the Real Heiress Came Home, Her Younger Brother Swallowed a Whole Bottle of Sleeping Pills 100Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 Out of Control 脱离掌控 Breaking free from control 17Reads—Score—Shelves
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His Bite Marks 他的咬痕
[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
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- 195 On the Seventh Day After My Death, He Dug Up My Grave 死后第七天，他刨开了我的坟 On the seventh day after my death, he dug up my grave. 75Reads—Score—Shelves
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Looking Toward Jiangnan 望江南
[Healing / Campus Romance / Bittersweet Ending] Dedicated to a brief, blazing youth! Ji Mengnan only remembered that night’s heavy rain and the river behind her, churning like boiling water. Is loving someone a lifelong thing? Everything Ji Mengnan did afterward, all the ways she tried to keep living, was because of that love. If it weren’t for Jiang Qing, she would have died at seventeen. The boy was the only ray of light in the darkness, but light never stays forever, and it doesn’t shine on h
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- 197 Tragedy!!! The Kidney Debt 虐！！！肾债 Heartbreaking!!! A kidney debt 100Reads—Score—Shelves
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Aye, I'm Leaving 阿也，我走了
[Sensitive, self-conscious heroine x gentle, sunny hero] When Lin Zhiyou was six, her father died in a car accident, and her mother raised her alone. After her mother changed jobs, eighteen-year-old Lin Zhiyou transferred to Nancheng No. 1 High School. There, she met Jiang Ye... A sensitive, self-conscious girl falls in love with a gentle, sunny boy, but the wheels of fate have not turned in her favor...
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- 199 Go Find Your White Moonlight. I Don't Want You Anymore 去找你的白月光吧，我不要你了 Go Find Your Moonlight, I Don't Want You Anymore 12Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Black Moonlight in the Abyss 深渊中的黑月光
[Gentle, steadfast little white flower × obsessive, lovesick madman] Su Mianmian liked a boy for five years, and was bullied for those same five years. What helped her endure those difficult days was a ray of light shining into her dark life. Only when they finally met in person did she learn that the boy she had loved for five years was the very person who had dragged her into the abyss. Seeing his demonic face, she ran. She deleted every way to contact her bully, thinking that once she made it
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