Looking for Stories That Seem Calm and Ordinary but Hurt Your Heart With Every Line 想看那种平平淡淡却又句句虐到心里的文
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The Flowers Faded Before Spring Arrived 未见春来花已逝
[The main story has a tragic ending; the bonus chapters have a happy ending. Both are complete.] [Pure love + romance + angst + school life + a touch of ensemble cast + slice-of-life + depressed heroine Gu Xihuan and sunny hero Liang Suian] Gu Xihuan thought she would remain in pain like this forever, until the day she died. After entering Ling'an No. 1 High School, she meets many kind and lovable classmates. Most of all, there is Liang Suian, her friendly deskmate and class president, whose
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The Final Seventy Days 最后七十天
[Two male leads + tragic ending + unrequited love + healing + quiet everyday life] [Gentle older brother Shen Qingzhou & Huang Yixing, who has albinism] After growing up wild and free in the countryside for twelve years, he was suddenly told he was an illegitimate child. Less than two days after his mother died, Shen Qingzhou was taken to live in the city by his biological father. Six years later, he was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. His final wish in life was to return to the pla
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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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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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Quick Transmigration: The White Moonlight Dies After Maxing Out Affection 快穿：白月光她刷满好感就死遁
[Quick transmigration + outwardly warm, inwardly cold heroine + no fixed pairing + not fragments of one soul + redemption-focused + every small world ends in tragedy] How do you max out both your targets' love and heartbreak values? Yue Yuyi's answer is to choose the best possible target, become the moonlight in his heart, then fake her death when he loves her most. She edits each conquest into a polished video and earns points from the viewers. She enjoys every minute of it. System: Master, you
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A Human Cage 人间囚笼
[Not a wish-fulfillment story + extremely dark + oppressive and suffocating. Don’t read if you’re faint of heart.] When you’re nearing the end of your life, you can actually feel it coming. Just like right now. The closer that moment gets, the more you want to leave something behind in this world. But what should I leave? Assets lose value, and houses change hands. Nothing material can last forever. So perhaps I should tell everyone my story instead. I’m no good person. I just occasionally feel
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Starting Out as a Full-Time Undercover Agent in Northern Myanmar 从缅北开始做全职卧底
“Perhaps the beings created in darkness can also defeat the darkness.” After being kidnapped, Mu Guang, born with a personality disorder, is trafficked to northern Myanmar. Faced with death and threats, he stays calm, decisive, and ruthless, earning the admiration of a drug lord. But no one knows that this antisocial man has long been an undercover police officer... Five years later, a new police officer named Mu Guang reports for duty at the Shun'an Municipal Public Security Bureau, only to be
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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A Dark Obsession Turns to Madness 暗瘾成狂
Each volume is a completely new, standalone story. Volume One: Love Under the Stars: After Chen Guang was in a car accident, he lost the use of his legs. Bai Weixing cared for him for three years, enduring his insults and being driven away countless times. At last, his legs recovered, but she had no reason to stay by his side anymore. So she sensibly left. Chen Guang, however, couldn’t get used to her absence. Over the course of those more than a thousand days and nights, he had grown accustomed
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Ziqing 子卿
A princess of a fallen kingdom and a prince from a foreign land meet on the journey to a political marriage and fall in love. But fate has other plans: one must put her country first, the other his people and elder brother. Their love never goes beyond what propriety allows; neither of them ever crosses the line. To be happy with the one I love for a whole lifetime, only to be told it was all a dream: how cruel. “Princess, you and Prince Chen are not destined to be husband and wife. This dream i
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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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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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A Mother and Daughter’s Crossing 母女渡
She is a daughter of Tibet, stolen away by fate. He is a swindler from another land, cloaked in kindness. One lie, half a lifetime in captivity. Amid yellow earth and snowstorms, she becomes a shore her daughter can call home. From Lhasa to Linxia, from despair to being reborn, they make their way through the darkest night, all to return to that first ray of light.
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Drifting Slowly Through Passion and Desolation 慢慢走过热烈与荒芜
From high school to the working world, three gentle, untroubled relationships unfold in a journey of growth and healing. She passes through the fervor of first love and the desolation of regret, slowly becoming a clear-eyed, independent person.
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All These Years Working Away from Home 外出打工这些年
Ever since Yu Xiaobai married Wu Jiajia, who loved wealth and despised poverty, he hasn’t had a single peaceful day... She turned their home upside down, then teamed up with her first boyfriend to make off with all the money he had worked so hard to earn. He indulged and cherished her in every way, but still couldn’t change Wu Jiajia’s determination to divorce him... After Wu Jiajia asked for a divorce for the umpteenth time, Yu Xiaobai finally chose to leave this absurd marriage and let them bo
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He Activated His Late Wife’s Personality Backup Chip 他激活了亡妻的人格备份芯片
He activated the personality backup chip of his late wife.
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Bandit Love: Her and Him 匪爱：她与他
1v3, realistic, not a wish-fulfillment story, very slow burn, tragic romance + age gap + coercion + bittersweetness + happy ending He is her fiance's younger brother, and she is the childhood sweetheart his brother broke off his engagement with. By a cruel twist of fate, he has become a dangerously addictive sweetness to her, while she is the one and only person he cannot live without. Bound by reality, they cannot be together. Her family arranges blind dates, and she thinks she can escape this
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Day and Night, Dust to Dust 昼夜同尘
[No villains in the entire story! No melodrama! No misunderstandings! An utterly hopeless bad ending that will leave you breathless with anguish!] At the same time, in the same space, on the same mountain, in the same house. They loved each other for eighty-three years and stood side by side for eighty-three years, yet could never see one another. She was an Official of Day in the Yang Order, keeping the daylight peaceful. She wrote the story of a lifetime of longing on a stone wall, trusting it
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Bamboo Roots 竹根
I was lost, and didn't even know it. When I woke up, I was so afraid. But I was destined to awaken, to break free from my cocoon and become a butterfly. I'm clumsy, so the road behind me was full of stumbles, and I ended up covered in wounds. Thankfully, I kept searching for the light along my path and never gave up...
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A Love That Came to Nothing, Part 1 无疾而终1
A Love That Came to Nothing 1
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He Cheated, and I’m Trapped on the Day I Died 他出轨了，而我被困在了我死的那一天
He Cheated on Me, and I Was Trapped on the Day I Died
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Salvation or Ruin 是救赎是劫
Is he salvation or a calamity?
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Loving You Is a Wound I Don’t Dare Touch 爱你是不敢碰的伤
A love story between a poor lawyer and a plastic surgeon. Loving you is a one-man show, played by me alone. Life is vast, and meeting you was both fate and a misfortune. I never ask for anything in return. I only hope I can hold on to my kindness and innocence.
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I Hunt Down Transmigrators in Ancient China 我在古代抓捕穿越者
The protagonist, Long Chen, transmigrates into an ancient world. But it turns out that world is full of transmigrators. They belong to many different factions. Long Chen, himself a transmigrator, receives a mission: eliminate every other transmigrator. …
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My Life Is Yours 我的命，都给你
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.
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德
I’m a Scout: Zhan De
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When I Claim These Lands, I'll Win Your Heart 待我拱手河山讨你欢
(The new book’s rating has just been released. Darlings, please help give it a five-star review at the end of the book. Mwah!) At the age when he should be carefree, bold, and living for the moment, Chu Longfei has no choice but to follow in his father’s footsteps and shoulder the burden of leading the martial world. He devotes himself wholeheartedly to the welfare of the martial world, only to be persecuted, with even his closest and dearest family members caught in the crossfire. Luckily, his
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The Eleventh Letter 第十一封信笺
Set against the turmoil of the Republican era, this is a tragic love story. After the young Zhou Yao loses all news of the man she loves, she sets out to find him. Along the way, she follows Zhang Han and unexpectedly investigates the collapse of the Hubei Jingjiang embankment. During an impeachment case at the Inspectorate, she glimpses how the worldly powers of the Republic oppress the people. Through the eyes of ordinary people, the story portrays the true history of the Republic, showing fro
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