Looking for a Heartbreaking Read, One That’ll Tear Me to Pieces 求刀,刀我,太久没被刀了,求,千刀万剐那种
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After I Gave Up Hope of Surviving My Terminal Illness, They Begged Me to Live 绝症死心后,他们求我活下去
[Two male leads + angst + groveling pursuit + ancient-style ABO] A love-starved, suspicious scum gong vs. a cold, heartbroken, frail shou The Chu family had two sons: the elder was stunningly handsome, while the younger knew both the past and the present. Rong Yong once thought he would grow old hand in hand with the elder Chu son, and become a peerless ruler and subject with the younger. But a marriage substitution shattered everything. The one he loved most became his younger brother’s fiancée
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Zhou Jingchuan, You're Too Late 周敬川,你来迟了
[Two male leads + terminal illness + chasing your husband back + angsty romance] The thing Pei You regretted most in his life was following someone into an alley that night. He lost the prayer beads his older brother had given him, saved a girl, and then caught the attention of her brother, Zhou Jingchuan. Zhou Jingchuan was gentle and considerate, maneuvering closer one step at a time. Pei You thought it was love, until he saw the prayer beads bearing his own name fall from Zhou Jingchuan.
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Whale Fall into the Abyss 鲸落深渊
Little fish, little fish, may you swim out of the abyss soon. His younger brother, whom he had raised by hand despite no blood relation, sent him to a detention center for two years to “set him straight” and told him to come out once he was normal. Those two years were a nightmare that devoured him, one he could never wake from. His body and mind were tormented, his feelings worn away, and he was trained into numb, hopeless submission. “Knowing you raised me makes me sick. Why don’t you just die
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The Boy I Found in the Heavy Snow Killed My Entire Family 大雪捡来的少年,杀了我全家
The Boy I Rescued in the Snow Killed My Entire Family
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Yin-Yang Twins 盗墓笔记之阴阳双生
(Pure angst. Some characters may be out of character. This is a story about redemption; please don’t read if that bothers you. Apologies for the OOC.) “Thud.” The knife slipped from his hand and fell into the bathtub. A smile of relief spread across his face as his consciousness gradually faded from this world. When he opened his eyes again, he was in a completely different world. Hearing people call a name stirred memories of a hugely popular novel from his previous life: The Grave Robbers' Chr
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Tomb Raiding: I, Young Master Tang, Specialize in Fixing Unfinished Business! 盗墓:小唐爷我,专治意难平!
[Female-oriented!!! System + a no-regrets tomb-raiding story + immersive acting] [The protagonist is acting from beginning to end, so their personality is definitely not always the same] [OOC + mountains of original headcanon] Tang Zhou wakes up as the young master of a martial arts school run by a family in The Grave Robbers' Chronicles. Looking at the very real, carefree Wu Xie before him, he thinks of Pan Zi's tragic death. Tang Zhou: I'm not accepting this lousy plot! So the Iron Triangle an
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Tomb Raiding: I Get Stronger by Spitting Blood, and Everyone Thinks I’m Dead 盗墓:吐血变强,全员以为我死了
[No romantic tension, no babysitting, pampered-all story with a secret identity] [Female-oriented! Friendship and family bonds; a strong yet tragic male lead] Mountains of headcanons, severe OOC Tang Zhou, a tool character, binds himself to a Happy Ending System for The Grave Robbers’ Chronicles. His main job is saving people; his side job is raising kids. He earns the reward promised by the System by dying a perfect death, even nailing his own coffin shut. But after he’s well and truly dead, th
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Quick Transmigration: The Universally Disliked Fight to Become the No. 1 Fan Favorite 快穿:万人嫌争做人气角色No1
After Shi Wuqing died, someone claiming to be a System found her. If she collected enough “popularity points,” she could come back to life. Shi Wuqing agreed. Then she was sent into various novels, where she became the cannon-fodder character readers hated most. Her mission was to become the character readers loved most, with the highest popularity, by the end of each novel! World One: Shi Wuqing became the scheming younger sister who took the heroine's place and married the prince. At the begi
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Lotus in an Emerald Cage 翡翠笼中莲
The Lotus in the Jade Cage
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Locked Glaze 锁琉璃
Locked Glaze
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A Merchant's Charm in Troubled Times 乱世商娇
A Charismatic Merchant in Troubled Times
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My Childhood Sweetheart Died in Battle, and the Enemy Prince Forced Me to Bear His Child 竹马战死,敌国王爷逼我生子
[Female general + God of War prince + Powerful rivals + Imprisonment and torment + Angsty romance + Subjugation and counterattack + Revenge and corruption + Silver dragon awakening + Childbirth] “Chu Yuan, if you don’t kill me, one day I’ll kill you!” Jiang Li is a battle-hardened female general of Liang, but after her fiancé dies in battle, she becomes a prisoner of Chu Yuan, the enemy nation’s God of War. He breaks her proud spirit, shackles her hands and feet in iron chains, and even erases h
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After Marrying My Childhood Sweetheart, I Turned My Life Around with My Archenemy's Child 嫁给竹马后,我靠死对头的孩子逆袭了
After Marrying My Childhood Friend, I Turned My Life Around with My Nemesis's Child
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After I Dumped My Ex-Boyfriend, He Became Worth Tens of Millions 抛弃前男友后,他身家千万
After I Dumped My Ex-Boyfriend, He Became Worth Tens of Millions
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The Substitute 替身
Substitute
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After My Fiancé Lost His Memory, I Stopped Loving Him 未婚夫失忆后,我不爱他了
After My Fiancé Lost His Memory, I Stopped Loving Him
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Reborn, I Chose to Bring My Husband and Best Friend Together 重生后,我选择成全丈夫和闺蜜
After Being Reborn, I Chose to Let My Husband and Best Friend Be Together
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I Am President Fu's Long-Dead Beloved 傅总死掉的白月光就是我
I Am Mr. Fu's Dead White Moonlight
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After Serving Time for His Sister, I Refused to Marry Him 替他妹坐牢后,我不嫁了
After Serving Time in Prison for His Sister, I Won't Marry Him
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After My Husband Cheated, I Chose to Divorce Him 丈夫出轨后,我选择离婚
After My Husband Cheated, I Chose Divorce
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The Day My Child Died, My Brother Kept Watch for the Killer 孩子去世那天,哥哥再给凶手放哨
The day my child died, my brother was keeping watch for the murderer again.
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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
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On My Wedding Day, I Refused to Marry Him 结婚当天,我不嫁了
On My Wedding Day, I Called Off the Marriage
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On the Day I Married the Male Lead, My Readers Killed Me 和男主结婚当天,我被读者杀死了
On the Day I Married the Male Lead, I Was Killed by a Reader
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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.
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President Cheng, I Don't Love You Anymore 程总,我不爱你了
Mr. Cheng, I Don't Love You Anymore
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With Only Two Months to Live, They Finally Break Down and Repent 命剩最后两月,他们终于崩溃忏悔
[Tearjerker]+ [Heartbreaking]+ [Bad Ending]+ [No Clichés, Realistic Story] The world beneath the neon lights is dazzling, but it has never shone for just one person. Lonely souls are always searching for comfort, but the medicine that could heal their wounds died long ago in childhood. When the stories they left behind finally become known, all that awaits them is a corpse that has long since grown cold. His parents spend their entire lives mired in a failed marriage, treating Bai Mo like a garb
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The Mission Starts Over a Hundred Times 任务重来一百次
“You came to save me, so why can’t you look only at me? Why do you have to give your attention to those one, two, three insignificant people?” “You seem so shy. You never take my hand first. Even just now, you only did it because of someone else.” “Now that you have me, you don’t treat me as well as you used to. There wasn’t any strawberry milk today either, was there?”
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One Hundred Do-Overs: Side Story 《任务重来一百次》番外
Extra Story for "The Mission: One Hundred More Tries"
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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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Kicked Out of the Rich Family? I Headed to the Countryside and Became Everyone's Dream Lover 被踹出豪门?我下乡杀疯成万人迷
[Two male leads + hated by all to doted on by all + rivals fighting over the love interest + delicious face-slapping] As soon as Jiang Xun returned to his wealthy family, he kicked the fake young master who had come to provoke him flying. His stepmother called him ill-mannered, his two older brothers watched coldly, and even the servants were waiting to laugh at him. Jiang Xun treated everyone equally: whoever made snide remarks about him got their mouth torn apart. His biological father thought
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After I Was Diagnosed with a Terminal Illness, I Dumped My Top-Tier Star Girlfriend 确诊绝症后,我甩了身为顶流的她
[Angst + Pure Love + Campus + Entertainment Industry + Bad Ending] Three years ago, Tang Yuzhi was unexpectedly diagnosed with a terminal illness. Not wanting to hold back his promising girlfriend, Xue Ningbing, he chose to leave without a word. Three years later, Xue Ningbing has become a top-tier star. She has never forgotten the promise she made to him three years ago, and decides to search for the man who once abandoned her. He avoids her and pushes her away, all to make her let him go. She
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After CCTV Exposed Me, the Entire Internet Was Left Devastated 我被央妈曝光后,全网致郁了
[Showbiz + Angst + Pure Romance + Songs] “Baby, take your medicine!” Qin Xia looked at his blurry girlfriend. He reached out, wanting to touch her, but he could never quite reach her. “If I take the medicine, will I never see you again?” “Silly, I just want you to get better soon...” Her figure began to disappear. After Qin Xia won the Best Singer award, he stood before the cheering crowd and slowly said, “The only way I can see her, you call a delusion.”
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He's Gone! 他不在了!
When Gu Chang’an was three, his father remarried and his mother left. His family was shattered, and so was he. From then on, home was no longer Gu Chang’an’s harbor or his refuge from the storm. When he felt wronged, he had nowhere to hide. Until Ding Tingting appeared. She was like a beam of light shining down on Gu Chang’an…
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The Desolate Seafloor 绝望海底
[Entertainment + Singing + Sickly Hero + Healing + Tearjerker + Positive Energy + Redemption] Bai Chen transmigrates to a parallel world, only to discover that he has cancer and needs a huge sum of money for treatment. A singing contest hosted by pdd is underway, drawing a massive audience and offering a huge cash prize! So Bai Chen joins to earn money for his medical bills. In the preliminaries, Bai Chen sings “Under the Sea,” and the entire livestream falls silent, lost in thought. In the knoc
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I'm Dying, Can You Leave Me Alone? 我要死了,能别来打扰我吗?
(This story includes traditional mythology, mainly to set things up for the male and female leads. Let me say it again: the protagonist does not cultivate immortality! The protagonist does not cultivate immortality! The mythology doesn’t take up much of the story. For reference, see Fox Spirit Matchmaker. If you don’t like it, please don’t read.) As for why it’s listed under urban slice-of-life, the System assigned the category automatically.) [Regret + No Forgiveness + Angst] In the face of
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I Have Cancer, and My Desk Mate Held Me and Wept When She Found Out 得了癌症,同桌得知后抱着我痛哭
A mother who left, a father addicted to gambling. I thought that was already bad enough, but I never imagined fate would play such a cruel joke on me. Still, there will always be people in this world who believe in love, chasing after it through gales and blizzards for a lifetime. I'm only afraid of the pain of parting.
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After Divorcing the Female CEO, I Wound Up in the Arms of a Stunning Doctor 和女总裁离婚后,误入绝色女医怀
[Complete. The animated adaptation is out. Click the author's profile for the new novel.] Original title: Divorced in the Late Stages of Cancer, Then Everyone Started Loving Me [Everyday life + slow burn + one heroine + no System or golden finger + no turning back + occasional madness] In their four years of marriage, Song Yilang thought he was lucky to have a beautiful wife and a happy family. So he worked himself to the bone, hoping to stand side by side with Lin Su. But when he got cancer and
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Terminal Cancer: My Campus Beauty Girlfriend Breaks Down When She Finds Out 癌症晚期:校花女友知道后崩溃了
[One heroine + online romance + daily life + lighthearted romance + pure love + heartbreak + the beauty of tragic endings] With terminal cancer, Jiang Jin decided to put on a show. “So you’re saying we were all just pawns in your act?” Xie Yumo glared at Jiang Jin, her face dark with anger. Jiang Jin shook his head and smiled like a spring breeze. “You’re all the protagonists.” “Then was your love for me fake too?” “No.” “What about the cancer? Hurry up and say it’s fake!” “It isn’t.” “Why? Why
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Stop Asking Me to Forgive You. Can You Just Let Me Go Before I Die? 别求我原谅了,临死前放过我好吗
[A pure healing story. The protagonist is destined to die + guiding spirits to the afterlife] Also known as [I Guide All Living Beings Through the Mortal World] After a checkup, Lu Yuan learns that he has at most six months left to live. So Lu Yuan decides to cast aside the heavy burdens that were never his to bear and start living for himself! Just then, he encounters the “Forget Worries Tavern,” and after his death, he becomes its owner.
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Riddled with Illness, I Refuse Treatment. Why Are You Crying? 诸病缠身,我不治,你们哭什么
[Also known as: "Your Son Has Been Gone for a Long Time" and "My Depression Was Getting Better, but I Still Had Stomach Cancer"] Guo Lu was just passing through, a person suffering from depression, schizophrenia, and stomach cancer. After learning that he had only a few years left if he did not seek treatment, Guo Lu wanted nothing more than to end it all on his own terms. After the conflicts with his family accumulated and finally exploded time and again, the people close to him at last learned
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But When He Left, the Whole Garden Was in Spring 偏他去时春满园
When Gu Lan heard he had only ten months left to live, he was unexpectedly calm and accepting. Looking back on his life, it had been a complete mess. In this world, he was nothing more than a pathetic nobody whom no one cared about... Perhaps no one would cry for him when his life finally came to an end... Gu Lan accepted the outcome without resistance. After all, ever since he returned to this family, he had never received anything. If that was the case, why should he be afraid of losing anythi
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I Killed Myself, Yet People Put Me on a Pedestal 我自杀了,却被人们捧上神坛
He killed himself! An artist who thought the world was beneath him. While he was alive, people said he was a compulsive plagiarist, a womanizer and gambler, an arrogant diva, and morally corrupt. He was completely blacklisted. After his death, however, he was marketed as a once-in-a-millennium prodigy, a perfectionist and a jack-of-all-trades who excelled across countless fields! Capital wiped away layer after layer of the bans and smears against him, hoping to wring the last bit of value from h
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After I Left With a Terminal Illness, My Contract Girlfriend Went Crazy Looking for Me 绝症离开后,合约女友找疯了
An Miaoxi is the CEO of a publicly listed company. While waiting for the man she has always cherished to return from abroad, and to ward off unwanted attention from others, she picks up Lin Xun, a reborn transmigrator she happens to find by the roadside, and makes him her contract boyfriend. For five years, Lin Xun has cared for her in every way and kept their home running like clockwork. But An Miaoxi has always regarded him as nothing more than a “substitute” for the man in her heart. When the
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I Risked My Life to Save Others. The Whole Internet Wept and Begged Me Not to Die! 拿命去救人,全网泪崩求我别死!
Ding! “Host body scan in progress. Matching with the ‘Save Lives at the Cost of Your Own’ System… “System bound! Host, please explore how the System works on your own... J Jiang Chenyuan, who had terminal cancer, heard an electronic voice ring in his ear and sprang upright from the bed. A System? A golden finger? He’d read plenty of novels in his previous life, and a golden finger was standard equipment for anyone who transmigrated! It seemed he wasn’t destined to die just yet. He swore he’d
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The Memory Trial: The Moment the Nation Wept for Him 记忆审判:那一刻,全国为他痛哭
[Narcotics Police] [Anti-Drug Campaign] [Narcotics Officer] [Sacrifice] A scarecrow stands in the wilderness, shielding the endless expanse behind it. In early autumn, ten years after he left home, he asked someone to place his final wish in your hands. The fire he lit never went out. Only the one who kept watch has gone. The national emblem on his cap is like his name: “Please bury it with me.” Birds sweep across the blank spaces of time, like a long story waking from beneath the dust. His eyes
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Mom Says: Having a Son Like Me Is a Total Failure 妈妈说:有我这种儿子,真失败
Rising star Li Chulu appears on the show Little Lu's Appointment and openly admits that she failed as a parent. She says her son has loved fighting since he was little, hates reading and studying, likes going out to fool around, and comes home late every night. “Having a son like that is a failure!” But when the production crew gets in touch with Li Chulu's son and projects his memories onto the big screen, everyone discovers that things aren't quite as Li Chulu described... He fought from a you
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Back to Field: The Centenarian National Treasure Is Revealed, and the Whole Internet Breaks Down in Tears 蘑菇屋:百岁国士曝光,全网泪崩
Season 6 of Yearning for the Life has begun, and everyone is stunned by the breathtaking seaside scenery. But what no one expected was that the owner of Mushroom House would be a centenarian. He trains his frail granddaughter with such brutal severity that netizens curse him and cry out in sympathy for her! Then they catch sight of an unmarked graveyard, and the wolves of the north… Three generations, from the oldest to the youngest, all took part in battles big and small, and every one of them
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High Martial: After I Die, My Memories Are Revealed and My Daughter Breaks Down in Tears 高武:我死后记忆曝光,女儿泪崩
Notice: The revelations are basically over. From here on, there are no tragic twists or toxic content, so you can read on without worry. Qin Menglan, Qin Qianqian, and Qin Xianru are the three Valkyries of Xia. Yet their father, Qin Luo, is a scumbag who became a Demon Emperor and slaughtered humans. To protect humanity, the three daughters joined forces, subdued Qin Luo, and sent him to his death. Qin Menglan recalled: My father was a monster. Before I turned eight, he treated me well, like a m
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You Broke Your Promise. 你失约了呢。
You broke your promise.
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