The Heroine Loves the Male Lead, but He Doesn’t Appreciate Her 女主很爱男主，男主不珍惜

1. 1 终 At Last, I Admit Defeat 终于愿赌服输 Spring Thunder Cannon春雷炮Modern Romance50k WordsCompleted “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. 13.1kReads8.2Score86314d adds

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   This book is really good. If you want to read a tragic novel, look for this one. It's truly tragic. The female lead dies at the beginning, and it's a real death, not a fake one. The male lead regrets his actions after the female lead dies.

2. 2 离 My Ex-Husband Is Irresistible After Our Divorce 离婚后我的前夫真香了 Wusu Bubble Rice Cracker乌苏泡仙贝Modern Romance317k WordsCompleted [The print edition of Moon Crossing Roses is now available] [The Groveling Ex's Redemption (Unconventional), Reunited After a Breakup] [Cool, Rational Beauty, Cold on the Outside and Warm on the Inside * Tsundere, Awkward Big Puppy Who Learns to Change] ", His rose garden is still a desolate wasteland." ", If love were a research project, you would be my one and only subject for life." After five years of marriage, Bai Luo'an left Huo Ling a folder. Inside were the divorce papers she'd signed, h 17.9kReads9.2Score1.3k14d adds

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   The first book is angsty at first, then sweet; the female lead is clear-headed, has strong values, is sensible but not subservient, and they reunite. The second book has the female lead going abroad after the male and female leads break up, returning several years later, and they reunite. The third book features a laid-back woman and an arrogant CEO, and they reunite after a breakup.

3. 3 翻 Breaking In Through the Window! My Yandere Boyfriend Is Obsessed with Me 翻窗作案！病娇男友缠疯了 White Mustard Seed Fire白芥子火Modern Romance451k WordsCompleted [Showbiz + Sweet Romance + Obsessive Love + Rekindled Romance] Ruan Jiang, a top-tier star overseas, has returned home. On the night she gets back, she wakes up in her ex-boyfriend's arms, and she's terrified out of her mind. Her ex is refined and handsome, but there's something wrong with him: he's obsessive, controlling, and cruelly violent. Ruan Jiang runs for the hills, determined to focus on her career. But before long, her ex moves in next door and knocks on her door every night, doing eve 1.5kReads9.3Score14514d adds
4. 4 公 After My Ex-Boyfriend Acquired the Company 公司被前男友收购以后 Zhi Yu知渔Modern Romance514k WordsCompleted [Lazy, bootlicking heroine + arrogant Capricorn who buys your company when you dump him + workplace romance + sweet pampering = rekindled love] The thing Tong Nian regrets most is making a bet with her best friend during her freshman year to flirt with the aloof campus heartthrob Liao Yuncheng. And somehow, it worked! Her second biggest regret is that a year later, she dumped him in a daze, only to be dragged onto his blacklist. His reason: he had no shortage of ordinary friends. N years later. 17kReads9.4Score2k14d adds
5. 5 我 I Once Promised You a Golden Age of Joy 我曾许你盛世欢颜 Flirtatious Little Bottle风流小瓶子Modern Romance44k WordsCompleted Ye Chen waits for his Mrs. Ye, from the days when youth was like a dream until her hair turns white as snow. But he will never know that his Mrs. Ye was buried long ago in that rotten, muddy grave... 1.6kReads6.6Score27214d adds

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   Rating: Full stars! It's so good! The whole story is very heart-wrenching. The first two chapters made me cry so much!

6. 6 死 I'd Rather Go Crazy and Play the Victim Than Stalk My Dream Guy 死缠烂打追男神，不如装疯卖惨一把 Xin Yue Li26辛月里2611k WordsCompleted Instead of doggedly chasing your dream guy, pretend to lose your mind and play the victim for once 3.6kReads—Score2114d adds

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   I'm raving about this! 🥰🥰 The female lead chased the male lead for five years, but he hated her and moved twice to avoid her. Later, the female lead accidentally lost her memory, and the male lead took care of her and gradually fell in love with her. [May you be blessed soon!][May you be blessed soon!]

7. 7 她 After She Stopped Loving Him, Wen Yanqi Regretted Everything and Begged to Get Back Together 她不爱后，温言祁疯狂后悔求复合 A Penguin Who Has to Write Every Day每天都要码字的企鹅Modern Romance220k WordsCompleted [Both Pure + Imprisonment + Forced Love + Amnesia + Woman Pursues Man + Coercive Possession + Scheming and Obsessive + Love Grows Over Time + Playing Hard to Get + Angst Before Sweetness + Relentless Pursuit] Between her and him, one of them is always forcing the issue. When Shen Shuhe loved Wen Yanqi, he brushed her off with contempt and cold indifference. After accumulating enough disappointment, Shen Shuhe finally signed the divorce papers on a sunny day. She thought it meant freedom, never r 13.9kReads8.0Score51614d adds

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   The male lead didn't cherish her at first, and later regretted it and went through a nightmare of chasing after her!

8. 8 蚀 A Love That Cuts to the Bone 蚀骨危情 Qi Lao You淇老游Modern Romance753k WordsCompleted 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 66.2kReads9.2Score5k14d adds

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   Honestly, I don't know how to describe this novel. You could say it's angsty, but it's not really that angsty; you could say it's sweet, but it's not that sweet either. The male lead is incredibly kind to the female lead later on, but he acts a bit strangely towards her. Anyway, you absolutely have to read it; you'll regret it if you don't. This novel is just so good!

9. 9 不 I'm Done Chasing Her. She's Marrying Another Tycoon 不追了，她和别的大佬联姻了 Super Nice超奈丝Modern Romance541k WordsCompleted (The short drama based on this book, He Came from the Other Shore, is now streaming.) [Sweet, gentle young Chinese medicine practitioner vs. devoted, free-spirited young heir. One-on-one romance, both virgins, sweet and healing] [A marriage that turns to love from the heroine’s perspective, unrequited love that becomes mutual from the hero’s perspective, and the second male lead chases his ex until he’s left in ashes] Si Xian had pursued Bo Yan without a title or commitment for seven years. At l 13.4kReads8.3Score1.3k14d adds

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   🍁①She chased after him for seven years without any official status or recognition. Finally, he relented, and she dressed up beautifully to wait for him at the marriage registry office, only to be stood up… 🌿🌿When she saw on social media that the engagement ring was on the hand of his secretary, with whom he had an ambiguous relationship, she was utterly heartbroken. She turned around, went to the blind date in her cousin's place, got the marriage certificate, and became someone else's wife…

10. 10 和 After Breaking Up with the Movie Star, I Hid My Pregnancy and Thrived on My Own 和影帝分手后我藏起孕肚独美了 Lotus Root Slices藕片Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Both Leads' First Love + Bittersweet and Sweet Romance, Breaking Free and Growing Strong, Proud Hero Chases His Wife, Mutual Redemption, Rekindled Romance, Adorable Child] Cui Tang once loved Gu Qiaoxi to the point of obsession. She faked a pregnancy to trick him into marriage and even threatened to die, but still couldn't make him stay. On the night before they broke up, they made love until they were spent. At dawn, Gu Qiaoxi said, “Cui Tang, you're disgusting!” That day, Cui Tang lay in the 13.6kReads8.6Score99814d adds
11. 11 昼 Day and Night of Delusion 昼夜妄想 Reverse Oxygen逆氧Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted He’s the capital’s spoiled young heir, a wild, reckless man with a savage streak no one can tame. She’s a pitiful girl living under someone else’s roof, meek, timid, and clear-eyed. One day, he tells her, “Shen Yang, help me win her over, and I’ll grant you one wish.” But he has no idea she’s been secretly in love with him for seven whole years! She watched with her own eyes as he did one crazy thing after another for her best friend! Then one day, he says, “Shen Yang, she said yes to my proposa 21.4kReads8.0Score1.5k14d adds

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    🌿✨The female lead deeply loves the male lead. She has always lived under someone else's roof, while he is a high-ranking prince in Beijing's elite circles. She knows there's a world of difference between them and has always kept her love buried deep in her heart. However, he asks her for help in pursuing her best friend. He successfully proposes, and she, heartbroken, chooses to leave. Only then does he realize his mistake and embark on a tumultuous journey to win her back.

12. 12 我 I Love You, and I’m Guilty 我爱你，我有罪 Qi Lao You淇老游Modern Romance59k WordsCompleted Tang Xiaoran says: “My feelings run too deep. If I’m alive but can’t hold you, I’ll go mad.” Everyone has something they can’t let go of. For Tang Xiaoran, it’s Shen Muyan. Tang Xiaoran is too single-minded. Her devotion turns into an obsession, and obsession hurts both the person who holds it and the person it’s directed at. … Shen Muyan says: “Good riddance to that woman. Let’s go have a drink to celebrate.” But when he’s drunk, he asks his friend, “Did I miss something really important?” “Yes 1.1kReads7.0Score10014d adds

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    ✨①Poor Shen Yang had a crush on him for seven years. He was crazy about his best friend, proposed to her, but was rejected and left. Later, when the Crown Prince didn't marry, he even begged Shen Yang to speak to him with red eyes. ②Tang Xiaoran was obsessed with Shen Muyan. After she left, Shen Muyan said it was good that she left, but when he was drunk, he asked if she had missed something important. Her friend replied that he had missed a fool who loved only because he was Shen Muyan.

13. 13 目 You Are All I See 目光所至都是你 Mu Han慕寒Modern Romance49k WordsCompleted After three years of marriage, Huo Mingxuan repeatedly hurt Qin Qianmo, the woman who truly loved him, for the sake of the woman he held dear in his heart. It wasn't until someone cut out her heart that he suddenly realized his own heart had gone empty too. Years after their separation, at a grand banquet hosted by the He family of the imperial capital, the woman he couldn't bear to see even in his dreams arrives beneath the starlight. Huo Mingxuan loses control on the spot and rushes to her lik 291Reads8.3Score—14d adds
14. 14 七 My Dearest, on the Seventh Day of the Seventh Month 七月七日卿 Wan Cheng绾橙Modern Romance59k WordsCompleted Huo Shaoqing hated Qiyue and wanted nothing more than for her to disappear from his world. Qiyue loved Huo Shaoqing. After loving him for seven years, she finally understood that some kinds of love mean letting go. When death came calling, Huo Shaoqing finally realized that he had fallen deeply in love with her long ago. 283Reads6.7Score—14d adds
15. 15 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. 115Reads8.1Score—14d adds
16. 16 傅 President Fu, Your Wife Has Signed the Divorce Agreement 傅总，夫人已签离婚协议 Yunduan Qiqi云端七七Modern Romance359k WordsCompleted [Heartbreakingly tragic + intensely satisfying + stand-in + contract marriage + groveling pursuit of his wife] Powerful CEO of a wealthy family × coldhearted designer who has shut her heart away After three years of marriage, Lin Xi is Fu Hanzhou's most dutiful ornament and his beloved's personal blood bank. On the night she miscarries, he coldly signs the papers. “You're not worthy of bearing my child.” The day her heart dies, she leaves a blood-written note saying, “May we never meet again,” 5.7kReads—Score27914d adds

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    This one! So satisfying and cathartic!! First agonizing, then exhilarating!! The male lead doesn't appreciate it!! A love-hate relationship between a domineering CEO and a stoic designer, a classic case of a heroine chasing after her lover, a powerful female lead story, a tale of revenge and growth, every chapter is suspenseful and full of twists and turns, the writing is concise and fast-paced. The female lead suffers at first, then the male lead gets utterly humiliated, tortured to the core—it's incredibly satisfying! Read it with confidence!

17. 17 迷 Ensnared 迷陷 Pegasus's Cat珀加索斯的猫Modern Romance418k WordsCompleted (One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners, showbiz) The heroine loses herself in love at first, but later walks away decisively. A bittersweet-to-sweet story that rewards patience. What does it feel like to love someone with all your heart? Tang Ning thought that as long as she could be with him, she wouldn't mind being hidden away in a dark corner forever. “Where are you?” A man's low, lazy voice came through the phone. “Hengdian. I just got off work.” After a brief silence 5.6kReads8.9Score48214d adds

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    🎉The female lead loves the male lead deeply, willing to give up everything for him, loving him to the extreme and losing herself in the process. ✨But the male lead doesn't cherish her, is extremely cold-hearted, and only treats her like a docile cat.🐱The female lead decisively walks away.🥳The male lead pursues her.

18. 18 软 A Gentle Seduction 软诱 Jiujiu Qi久久萋Modern Romance454k WordsCompleted The print edition of Rose Crown goes on sale August 10. Available on all platforms. [Married First, Love Later + Secret Crush + He Chases His Wife After Losing Her, But She Never Looks Back + Both Are Each Other’s First] She was the Xu family’s adopted daughter, and Zhou Yuetian’s little shadow. She had followed him everywhere since childhood, until she heard him say this at the age of twenty-four: “She’s just the Xu family’s adopted daughter. Why would I actually care about her? People like us 71.5kReads9.6Score8.6k14d adds

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    The female lead was originally his follower who liked him a lot. She always thought he liked her back, until one day she overheard him say, "How could I possibly care about her? Who is she? People like us should find someone of equal social standing!"

19. 19 犟 Stubborn Bones 犟骨 One Big Fish Head一条大鱼头Modern Romance519k WordsCompleted [Reunion After Years Apart + The Chase to Win Her Back + Two Cool, Distant Personalities + Eight-Year Age Gap] (Not a pure one-to-one romance. Please read the blurb before starting!!!! If it’s not your cup of tea, don’t read!!!! Malicious ratings will lower your luck!) “Arrogant and refined, stern and composed, a CEO from the elite” Zhou Congjin vs. “Cool and stubborn, worldly-wise, an ordinary-class beauty from a scholarly family” Shen Yi Shen Yi had always known that someone like Zhou Congjin 72.4kReads9.0Score19.6k14d adds
20. 20 儿 My Son’s College Entrance Exam Countdown Begins the Day He First Urges Me to Divorce 儿子高考倒计时，却是儿子第一次劝我离婚开始之时 Tangerine Sand桔沙6k WordsCompleted With the countdown to my son’s college entrance exams underway, the moment he first urged me to get a divorce arrived too. 225Reads—Score—14d adds

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    The female lead loves the male lead deeply but doesn't cherish him. She endured 20 years of a miserable marriage as a full-time housewife, wanting a divorce but unable to. He reunites with his former love and immediately divorces her. He's rich, and he offers to remarry her, but will she accept the "chasing after his wife" scenario?

21. 21 全 The All-Around Superstar Sets the Screen Ablaze 全能影后燃炸了 Er Dang二铛Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted After coming back from another world, Leng Yan lets loose and becomes her true self. Putting scumbags in their place and tearing into troublemakers comes easily to her. From then on, no one dares look down on the timid, cowardly nobody she used to be. Fans: My Yan is gorgeous and fierce, so cool she could split the sky! A certain song queen: Composer Leng has a profound mastery of her craft. Her lyrics and music are peerless. A certain medical school dean: Doctor Leng’s skills are extraordinary, 1.4kReads9.0Score13814d adds

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    The female lead is quite cool.

22. 22 他 He Said Love Came Too Late 他说爱情已迟暮 Plain Years素年Modern Romance2.5M WordsCompleted When Lu Huaizuo was a child, a master read his fortune and said he was destined to lack sweetness. He scoffed. Who cared about sweets? It wasn't until that drizzly day, when he brought her ashes home in his arms, that he understood what he lacked was her... Tang Su always thought love meant that you loved me, I loved you, and we were both happy together. It wasn't until Lu Huaizuo sent her to prison with his own hands, and she saw him sharing tender moments with another woman as she lay dying, t 2.4kReads7.4Score27414d adds

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    Absolutely terrible!

23. 23 踹 Dump the Romance Hero, Seduce the Emperor from a Male-Oriented Novel 踹掉言情男主，勾搭男频帝王 You Gongyu尤宫羽Ancient Romance553k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book, revenge, scheming, stunning heroine, seductive mastermind] The short drama His Heart on a String is now streaming! Shen Yuling transmigrated into a romance novel as its heroine. Unfortunately, she was a heroine whose luck had been stolen by a woman who transmigrated into the story. She would die in a fire, taking her unborn child with her, while her entire family would be wiped out. It was a fate the original heroine had failed to change, even after being reborn twice 17kReads9.2Score2.3k14d adds

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    🔥🔥Highly Recommended🔥🔥, [Transmigration, Revenge, Scheming, Beautiful Female Lead, Charming and Seductive] [Please Follow]

24. 24 上 I've Suffered Enough in My Last Life. I'd Rather Die Than Marry Him Again 上辈子苦够了，打死她都不嫁了 Chang Qingqing常庆庆Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Shen An'an came from a distinguished family and was both talented and beautiful. As soon as she came of age, she was betrothed to the fourth prince, Xiao Yuan, a man of heavenly beauty and noble character, and the dream lover of every young lady in the capital. Heaven had dealt her a winning hand. Even she once believed she was blessed beyond measure, until her girlish heart was shattered into pieces. She suffered every kind of pain at the hands of that graceful, refined man, and paid a devastat 17kReads8.6Score2.5k14d adds
25. 25 我 I'll Behave, So Don't Force Yourself on Me, Possessive Older Brother 我会乖，偏执嫡兄别搞强制爱 Pine Nut Lemon Tea松子柠檬茶Ancient Romance356k WordsOngoing [Historical romance + transmigration + forced love + fleeing while pregnant + the wife-chasing crematorium] Everyone said that Xie Zhuoqing, the young general of the Xie family, was noble and upright. But only Xie Jinning, whom he used for his pleasure in bed day after day, knew how different he was from the rumors. He was obsessive and deranged, with possessiveness and a desire for control pushed to the extreme. An accident had brought Xie Jinning and him together. She thought it would end afte 171Reads9.0Score—14d adds
26. 26 藏 She Hid Her Pregnancy and Left the Child Behind; Reborn, I Won't Chase Him Again 藏起孕肚去父留子，重生我不追了 Wu Li Chouchou乌里丑丑Ancient Romance456k WordsCompleted (Publication deal signed) Reborn, one-on-one, both pure, aloof beauty goes mad for love, husband-chasing crematorium (A heartbroken heroine x a hero who wants to be her dog) A Shang stole the position of Xie Hengyu's wife. Everyone knows Xie Hengyu is a sword cultivator prodigy with a brilliant future in the cultivation world, while A Shang is merely a lowly half-demon who became his wife through underhanded means. In the end, she was falsely accused of colluding with the demon clan and died a t 39.7kReads9.1Score3.4k14d adds
27. 27 栀 Zhizhi, Be Good! You Can’t Escape My Grasp 栀栀，乖！你逃不出孤的手掌心 Yu Jiuqing虞九卿Ancient Romance566k WordsCompleted A cool, reserved young female doctor vs. a mad prince (the heroine later becomes empress!) [Abduction and coercion + taking a minister’s wife + redemption arc + devoted romance + melodrama + forced marriage + obsessive male lead] Xie Zhao is rescued by a young village doctor. But there’s always a cool detachment in her eyes and brows. He loves women like her. He wants to possess her. But the young doctor is engaged. No matter, he can steal her away. If she doesn’t love him, he can keep her by hi 6kReads7.0Score29814d adds
28. 28 老 Don't Be Afraid, Honey. I Have a Redemption System to Help Me Win You Back 老婆别怕，我有赎罪系统换我追你 One Bored Rich Lady无聊富婆一枚Modern Romance203k WordsCompleted “Runaway Heiress x Possessive New Money Peacock” “Mind Reading + Both Reborn + Wife-Chasing System” * In her previous life, Song Yi was an untouchable heiress who treated Jiang Lin like a plaything. She took him by force, abandoned him, then left the country without a second thought. Later, when the Song family went bankrupt, he was the only person who could save her. He trapped her in a five-year marriage, holding her captive. Everyone said Jiang Lin was a distant, untouchable flower: cold, ele 3.1kReads—Score12614d adds

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    ^_^ In her past life, the young lady treated a high-and-mighty man like a plaything, and after going bankrupt, she was imprisoned for five years by a paranoid male lead. Reborn at seventeen, she desperately tries to escape him, but he relentlessly pursues her, chasing her like a peacock spreading its tail.

29. 29 他 He Knelt and Begged Me to Love Him, But I’d Fallen Out of Love Long Ago 他跪下求我爱他，可我早已不爱。 Zhouzhou on a Diet正在减肥的周周Marriage & Romance9k WordsCompleted He knelt and begged me to love him, but I had long since stopped loving him. 39Reads—Score—14d adds

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    The female lead kowtows in the snow until she bleeds, signs a kidney donation agreement to save the male lead, but is then framed for embezzling money, and the male lead tells her to get lost! Like to see how she later turns the tables!

30. 30 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. 1.7kReads8.1Score20714d adds

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    This one 🙂

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